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Hahahahaha, this will wreak HAVOC on GoDaddy's domain-squatting spam-business. I can't prove anything but the last time we've brainstormed a brand and domain n
by ivoras 4y ago
Hahahahaha, this will wreak HAVOC on GoDaddy's domain-squatting spam-business.
I can't prove anything but the last time we've brainstormed a brand and domain name, within a couple of days ALL of the name variants we searched for (which were free at the time of first search, and we did the search on an EU service) were taken, registered to GoDaddy, and a "helpful representative" offered us to buy it off them for like 150x the retail price.
The more people use tools like this to spam the squatters, the better.
- ivoras 4y agoNevermind... it looks like SmartyNames isn't reliably detecting which domains are free. I've made a search where it showed many "free" domains which ended up non-free. That probably means they are either not issuing DNS queries or GoDaddy is really evil.
- kirillzubovsky 4y agoMost of the time the tool is getting it right, even though it's not always free. Some domains are available for sale, but are currently squatted. Fun fact, I just did a search for: "Evil domain registration service that will query for the best names and will register them before you can." I found an excellent short .com that is available for a regular price. Now sure if I should grab it, now that I've already got a name. It's so tempting!
- satvikpendem 4y agoYep this is why I never use GoDaddy. Namecheap and Google Domains are great.
- below43 4y agoThis happened for a client also.