http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080226/5097/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080226/5097/#comment-725037 Ken Gaebler Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:45:28 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080226/5097/#comment-725037 Very interesting. I had always suspected that the domain name registrars were collecting the names of domains that people were interested in and then locking them up. It's amazing that Network Solutions has been caught doing this. No wonder that sometimes I would see a good domain was available only to find that it was gone thirty minutes later. This behavior is very anticompetitive, and definitely against the spirit of the Internet's sense of fair play. Kabateck Brown Kellner, the company that is leading the lawsuit, is very good at what they do. I would expect a big settlement within three to six months. Very interesting. I had always suspected that the domain name registrars were collecting the names of domains that people were interested in and then locking them up. It’s amazing that Network Solutions has been caught doing this. No wonder that sometimes I would see a good domain was available only to find that it was gone thirty minutes later. This behavior is very anticompetitive, and definitely against the spirit of the Internet’s sense of fair play. Kabateck Brown Kellner, the company that is leading the lawsuit, is very good at what they do. I would expect a big settlement within three to six months.

]]> http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080226/5097/#comment-725033 Davis Freeberg Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:29:08 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20080226/5097/#comment-725033 It really is unbelievable that they are using the tasting rules to lock people out of domains. They claim its to protect people from poachers, but you don't have to be the one who made the initial search to still buy the domain, you just need to do it through them. Hopefully we'll see the regulators step in and stop this process. It's really no different than a stock broker trading on inside information or frontrunning their customer's orders. If they know that a domain is desirable and buy it before a customer has a chance to, then they are profiting from that direct knowledge. It may not be for millions of dollars, but all of those $35 fees really add up after a while. It really is unbelievable that they are using the tasting rules to lock people out of domains. They claim its to protect people from poachers, but you don’t have to be the one who made the initial search to still buy the domain, you just need to do it through them. Hopefully we’ll see the regulators step in and stop this process. It’s really no different than a stock broker trading on inside information or frontrunning their customer’s orders. If they know that a domain is desirable and buy it before a customer has a chance to, then they are profiting from that direct knowledge. It may not be for millions of dollars, but all of those $35 fees really add up after a while.

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