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it's not private until it have an owner. or are you normalizing the criminal behavior of godaddy where registrars can rush and buy the domain while you're doin
by gcb0 8y ago
it's not private until it have an owner.
or are you normalizing the criminal behavior of godaddy where registrars can rush and buy the domain while you're doing the check out process just to sell back to you for more?
- dpark 8y agoCitation for the GoDaddy claim?
- nck4222 8y agoOP is probably referencing domain front running. Basically when you search a registrar for an available domain, if the domain is available they'll put a 5 day hold on the domain, making it available solely through that registrar but not others. It forces the searcher to buy it through that one registrar if they want it. I couldn't find any direct evidence of GoDaddy doing it, but there's a lot anecdotal reports of them doing it, and it's confirmed that Network Solutions was doing this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running A comment in a previous discussion with some more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4362961
- dpark 8y agoThanks. That's pretty lame but definitely not the same as buying up the domain and then raising the price. (Which would be shady but also probably a money-loser overall.)
- brohee 8y agoThe private entities I was speaking about are the auctionning registrar, the public good is the right to serve .ro domain (which should benedit Romanians at large). Also, presumably the additional cost on the .ro ccTLD from the bots hammering the servers is burdening the Romanian citizen, and the benefits are going to the offending registrars...