Comments on: Spyware steals domain names

By: those_assholes

those_assholes — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:09:45 +0000

They don’t pay to register (’taste’) domains, so trying to get them overloaded with bullshit domains won’t work. It’ll likely motivate them to expand their business.

Here’s what you do if they steal your domain:
* Never visit it, never tell anyone about it, remove all references to it. You want to make the domain inactive, which makes it unattractive to them.

* NEVER contact them. If they see that you want the domain, they’ll charge you a lot for it, obviously. That’s how their business works.

* Wait 5 FULL days before trying to register it again. Unless it’s getting enough hits to keep it, they will release it after the ‘taste’ test expires (exactly 5 days).

* They release 99% of domain names due to inactivity.. the 1% of people that contact them, or the few domains they get that make lots of money off clicks, keep them in business.

By: Yeyegal

Yeyegal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:41:13 +0000

Make em lose a lil money then. Just whois as much as possible. Use dictionary. Then keep on coming back and check the domains

By: ketyung

ketyung — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:16:09 +0000

If the domain name is somehow close any famous phrase and many people would tend to mistype it. And it seems to see some traffic with it, maybe metapredict would think that it’s worth to keep and renew. As you said it’s good money maker . But hope they’ll release for you soon

By: Badger

Badger — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:59:03 +0000

I noticed that one of the names I wanted to register was taken by metapredict. However, it seems to have been taken for a couple of weeks now. I’m guessing more people have mistyped our website and metapredict thought it would be a good money maker for them. WHOIS shows the registration expiring in about 7 months, I wonder if they’ll renew.

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By: jutt

jutt — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:08:36 +0000

they are scum. i have just lost a domain that i needed. i had paid for it to be registered 24 hours previously and i checked whois to see if it was registered and it was not. then i type in domain name 2 hours later and a site is up.

show what happens when you use crap/slow domain registrars.

By: smirking

smirking — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:39:07 +0000

Bob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy, has written an excellent blog entry about how stolen domain names are montetized. It was written over a year ago. This scheme is nothing new, but the ways scam artists are collecting the names could be changing.

Bob Parsons’ Blog: The Add/Drop Scheme:
http://www.bobparsons.com/adddropscheme.html

By: ketyung

ketyung — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:37:48 +0000

we’ll just wait.anyway, luckily, it’s isnt a must-have for the customer, we can twist a little bit of the name

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:08:00 +0000

did this today to my client. its not only them I see 2 or them different companies same tactics. just wait for 5 days when its deleted hopefuly youll get your domain name. just never ever contact them or visit the domain name.

I hope ICANN limits the deletion grace period or restricts these people from doing these as these are everyday obvious tactics that can be dealt with by ICANN

By: ketyung

ketyung — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:34:13 +0000

haha .. do it asap

By: Kay Kastum

Kay Kastum — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:42:43 +0000

Looks like they will stop at nothing to gain cash. Doing scanning now.