I worked for Godaddy and we were told if we registered a domain that a customer had told us about we would be fired.&nbsp; <br><br>I have not experienced what you have spoke of.&nbsp; I've registered a lot of domains w/o issue.<br><br>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.&nbsp; 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.<br><br>Go to the GoDaddy or Wild West Domains reseller website and run a check.<br><br>If you want the domain register it.<br><br>Keith<br><br><b><i>Alan Dayley &lt;alandd@consultpros.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED
 MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>I am thinking of registering a few domain names.  I was going to do a<br>search for availability but am reluctant to do so.  It appears that it<br>is not uncommon for search sites, or someone in the search chain, to<br>snap up names people have been looking at and registering them to sell<br>them at a higher price.<br><br>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060720/1255219.shtml<br><br>I know 3 people to whom this has happened and 1 other who registered a<br>.org and went back the next day to get .com and .net but found them<br>registered since just the previous day!<br><br>I'm certain many on this list have more experience than I with searching<br>out domain names.  How do you handle the searching issue?  What sites<br>are considered "safe" to use for searches?<br><br>Alan<br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE -
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