turbopugsleylx
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- Jun 6, 2008
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Hey BHWer's,
Take this post as a word of warning! Learn from my mistakes!
In the past I had heard about Go--Daddy buying peoples domains that they searched for and were available. They would search for a domain and then come back the next day to buy it only to find it was now GONE! Well today I experienced just this!
So I was doing some domain research yesterday looking for a new domain to register and I came up with a KILLER domain that was soo brandable and catchy...I wasnt looking for it in terms of SEO and age...but catchiness and brandability...
BINGO I found a awesome domain with awesome brand ability to register and I searched it on Go--Daddy and lo and behold it was available to purchase!
When I came back today to purchase the domain I see this:
Those little slick willies!!! Man this pissed me off.....pretty shady if you ask me!
Then I wanted to figure out what the catch was...why they do this....and guess what I found:
So they take your intellectual property that you do act on...your good ideas and then purchase the domain and sell you your own intellectual property back for probably 6-10x the original price.....I was gonna get this domain for $4 with private registration (Go--daddy coupon) so this would be up to 25x premium of the original price! Very shady business practices....borderline unethical IMHO....
Then I dug a little further and the rabbit hole went DEEPER...I looked up the WHOis for this particular domain (mydomain.com is not the domain I looked up)....and the WHOis is showing this thing was registered in 2010....what?!!
Now I was not drinking any alcohol or smoking any happy plants so I could be mistaken...but I am 99% sure what I saw last night was true...and the domain was indeed available! I have no idea how they did this....nor how they could have pulled this off..
:drinking2 :yeah:
So guys....next time you have an awesome domain or business idea....BEWARE BEWARE......do not go to Go--Daddy to do your domain research and check if something is available.....go to Name Cheap or another smaller no name domain registrar....
You can still go to Go--daddy and find a Retailmenot coupon for a 99 cent .com domain and buy it from Go--Daddy...BUT DO NOT do this until you are absolutley ready to register the domain or you might have your intellectual property snatched up right from under your nose! :soapbox:
Turbo
Take this post as a word of warning! Learn from my mistakes!
In the past I had heard about Go--Daddy buying peoples domains that they searched for and were available. They would search for a domain and then come back the next day to buy it only to find it was now GONE! Well today I experienced just this!
So I was doing some domain research yesterday looking for a new domain to register and I came up with a KILLER domain that was soo brandable and catchy...I wasnt looking for it in terms of SEO and age...but catchiness and brandability...
BINGO I found a awesome domain with awesome brand ability to register and I searched it on Go--Daddy and lo and behold it was available to purchase!
When I came back today to purchase the domain I see this:

Those little slick willies!!! Man this pissed me off.....pretty shady if you ask me!
Then I wanted to figure out what the catch was...why they do this....and guess what I found:

So they take your intellectual property that you do act on...your good ideas and then purchase the domain and sell you your own intellectual property back for probably 6-10x the original price.....I was gonna get this domain for $4 with private registration (Go--daddy coupon) so this would be up to 25x premium of the original price! Very shady business practices....borderline unethical IMHO....
Then I dug a little further and the rabbit hole went DEEPER...I looked up the WHOis for this particular domain (mydomain.com is not the domain I looked up)....and the WHOis is showing this thing was registered in 2010....what?!!

Now I was not drinking any alcohol or smoking any happy plants so I could be mistaken...but I am 99% sure what I saw last night was true...and the domain was indeed available! I have no idea how they did this....nor how they could have pulled this off..
:drinking2 :yeah:
So guys....next time you have an awesome domain or business idea....BEWARE BEWARE......do not go to Go--Daddy to do your domain research and check if something is available.....go to Name Cheap or another smaller no name domain registrar....
You can still go to Go--daddy and find a Retailmenot coupon for a 99 cent .com domain and buy it from Go--Daddy...BUT DO NOT do this until you are absolutley ready to register the domain or you might have your intellectual property snatched up right from under your nose! :soapbox:
Turbo