On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:33:15PM -0700, keith smith wrote: > I worked for Godaddy and we were told if we registered a domain that a customer had told us about we would be fired. > > I have not experienced what you have spoke of. I've registered a lot of domains w/o issue. > > For example I repeatedly debated registering burritoman.com because I just liked the name. During a 4 or 5 or 6 month period a ran a check on the Godaddy site to see if it was registered. I finally decided to register it and some had gotten it. My point is I ran maybe 10 checks over a 4 month period and later I found it had been registered just weeks before I made the decision to register it. > > Go to the GoDaddy or Wild West Domains reseller website and run a check. > > If you want the domain register it. > > Keith Years ago I tried doing whois through a website and the crooks registered it on the spot and then offered to sell it to me for a huge markup. Bastards. This wasn't one of the big registrars. They didn't even bill themselves as a registrar, just as a whois service. Some service! Before and since then I just stick to the cmd line whois. I've never had trouble registering domains through either GoDaddy or NetSol. If it's available they'll register it for you. That's their bread and butter. And they'll offer to register the same name in other TLDs when available. If you want other TLDs, you'd better get them then and there. That you've registered a domain is NOT a secret known only to you and your registrar. And you've shown more than slight interest: you're willing to pay for a domain, and you have a stake in that name already. The only trouble I've had with GoDaddy was with a recently expired domain (someone else's) that I wanted to register. It had been sitting expired for weeks, but was still within the "holding" period where the previous owner could still renew. I placed a "backorder" with GoDaddy and within minutes the domain had been transfered to Wild West Domains and then put up for auction. Now this *could* have been a coincidence. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss