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Conspiracy theory here: if you go to a big player like GoDaddy they'll sell their queries and some party will see the domain you want and squat it unless you re
by andersrs 3y ago
Conspiracy theory here: if you go to a big player like GoDaddy they'll sell their queries and some party will see the domain you want and squat it unless you register right away. Just use the whois command in your terminal.
- squigz 3y agoThis is the only conspiracy theory I subscribe to as well, and will never be convinced otherwise.
- andersrs 3y agoAre you the one person that believes Epstein killed himself?
- asylteltine 3y agoThey claim they don’t but you know they ABSOLUTELY DO
- dsgnr 3y agoNetworksolutions does this, godaddy doesnt.
- joshxyz 3y agoso does namecheap.
- phyzome 3y agoI remember some claim that whois servers were doing this.
- janalsncm 3y agoUnlike most conspiracy “theories” which are unfalsifiable, this should be pretty easy to prove or disprove. Just search for some random plausibly appealing domains and check to see if they’re registered 24-72 hours later. It’s not a particularly difficult or clever test to run, so I’m definitely not the first person to come up with it. It’s the kind of thing that’s big news if true but a non-story if false. The fact that no one has found it to be true suggests to me that it’s not happening.
- blovescoffee 3y agoFwiw I literally did this and within a few days the domain was registered before I could