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Search A Domain Candidate, Risk Losing It
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/119744.html#id119744
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AP writer Anick Jesdanun tells the findings of a report about an investigation of 120 claims of "domain name front running" delivered at the ICANN meeting on February 15, 2008. He says the report found no wrong doing. The SSA committee of ICANN said the problem was usually due to a misunderstanding and recommended better education of the consumer.

The AP story also said: "The report, brought before the ICANN board in New Delhi on Friday, did not examine a controversial practice by domain name seller Network Solutions LLC of grabbing names that people search for on its Web site but don't immediately register. "

   http://www.physorg.com/news122304766.html

There is some discussion at slashdot.

   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/15/2121200

One commenter there claims to provide a safer service to check domain names.

   http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=455960&cid=22441792
   http://www.saferdomainsearch.com/dns/search.php

I just recently did a few searches for domain names for a future project I want to work on. All of the names I searched for were parked by Network Solutions and they were all for sale for a small fee one time fee of $1050. I'm sorry but how is this even allowed? Instead of providing useful content of any kind, there are tons of ad plastered parked domains out there.

I think you mean $10.50, $1050 doesn't sound like a "small fee" to me.

I recently looked up a domain's status on DomainTools.com (formerly Whois.ws, I think), and Network Solution appears to have the domain registered at the same time I look it up. Beware.

>> I'm sorry but how is this even allowed?

I remember reading something ~ a week ago saying that ICANN or whatever will start charging registrars for that soon, that might discourage them from doing that again.

Haochi, I was being sarcastic, the one time fee for the domain names that I checked were actually $1050.00 USD each.

If you click on the buy now button there is a link that says WHY $1050. This is their reasoning behind the extremely high price for a domain name.

<< Premium Resale Domains are priced higher than unregistered domain names based on a variety of criteria including the number of characters in the domain, the number of years the domain has been registered, relevancy and popularity of the keyword, and the traffic it generates. You pay this premium price only one time at initial purchase which includes an extra year added to the term. Add more years to the term for just $19.99 per year at time of initial purchase. Renewals after the term expires will be at the standard Network Solutions renewal pricing. >>

ok their network solution – social media expert actually had an interview here

http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/02/sap-global-surv.html

I wanted to point him out to this forum/thread , but hey I cant find a an email /contact handle to tell him that is happening here..

oh well so much for peeps /social experts who are supposed to be passionate about their role!!