[Scspamcop] Re: OT Domain Name Front Running

[Robert Blair]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:21:51 UTC, "N. Miller" <nobody at spamcop.net> 
wrote:

> > In fact now days if you do any searches for domain names to register 
> > you need to register them immediately before they get hijacked, I have
> > seen reports of domain names being hijacked within two minutes of a 
> > search.
>  
> You can't "hijack" something which hasn't, yet, been claimed. However, your
> point is clear; don't search for a domain unless you actually intend to
> purchase it on the spot. Domain squatters exist who will try to grab it out
> from under you in hopes of selling it to you at a profit to them.

I think it is a "hijack", just as I reach for it they grab it a run, 
then demand a ransom.

About the main subject in the article, "Network Solutions", they grab 
it and then insist that you can only register it with them.  That 
seems to be a hijack also.


-- 
Robert Blair