Domains May Disappear After Search

Ponca City, We Love You writes "Daily Domainer has a story alleging that there may be a leak that allows domain tasters to intercept, analyze and register your domain ideas in minutes. 'Every time you do a whois search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain,' says one industry insider. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC ) has not been able to find hard evidence of Domain Name Front Running but they have issued an advisory (pdf) for people to come forward with hard evidence it is happening. Here is how domain name research theft crimes can occur and some tips to avoiding being a victim."

"domain tasting"

[TheWoozle]

Over the years, the Internet and its resulting commercialization have lead to some truly awful buzzwords and mangling of the language (may the person who first coined "blog" rot in hell)...

But ye gods! "domain tasting"?!

I can see it now... "The slashdot.org '97 was a superb one; It had a playful nose, a full, rich body and a piquant aftertaste. The digg.com '07, however, can only be described in scatalogical terms."

Does this apply to me?

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

How does this apply to me? I make it a point whenever entering my credit card number and personal information into an order form, to do a Google search first to make sure someone else doesn't have the same information, so they don't get confused and send my order to them instead.

Re:nope, they dont pay

[HTH NE1]

Oh, and by the way, this article is a dupe.

Re:"domain tasting"

[B3ryllium]

"Don't register me, Bro!"

Re:nope, they dont pay

[Some_Llama]

actually it's not a dupe, i went to submit this article but then checked two days later this was posted by someone else. I think i got article tasted :(

Re:Common sense

[houstonbofh]

Packets are being sniffed as they traverse thru the tubes. Try this, do a google search for something made up. Try to get a page result of 0. Do this a few times and write down each time you get a 0 result. Come back in a few days and do a google search and you will probably find some custom pages. Is this google tasting?

Interesting... I just tried with the word "carkfuck" and got 0 results. I wonder what it will look like next week? Oh Shit! It will point to slashdot!

PS: I had to try a few nonsense terms... Do you know how hard it is to find something not in google?

Re:This has been happening a long time

[TheCarp]

Oh yah...alternately....

if one of these guys was found in his home, dead, his lifeless body hanging by a rope attached to his testicles, blood completely drained, and the word "SQUATTER" carved into his flesh (with forensics reporting it was carved in before he died).... well that would make the news.

If it then happened to one more of these guys every week... we might see a decrease in this buisness model.

Not encouraging anyone...just... planting seeds.... maybe some will take root....

Re:"domain tasting"

[kalirion]

Come on, it should at least be "Don't taste me, Bro!"

Re:Trial garbage

[flonker]

Stolen credit cards, spelling mistakes, simple "changing your mind."

Back in the day when a domain registration was $100 for two years, we had the misfortune to hire a dyslexic person to type in orders. We ended up losing several thousand dollars, (quite a lot for a small business,) and even having him double and triple check the spelling didn't work. In short, he was let go after a few months.

Re:This has been happening a long time

[sm62704]

TLD (top level domain for non-geeks)

Sir, Have you seen this site's masthead? Do you have any idea where you are?

Re:What registrar registers a domain for $2?

[SleptThroughClass]

So you know that 1 and 1 is not 2.

Re:Why is This So Hard to Verify?

[Leffe]

xyzzyplugh99.com has now been registered...