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This is a very interesting discussion. I've been flipping domain names as a side-biz for years and I've had ALOT of discussions with other guys who say that Go

by zupreme 14y ago

This is a very interesting discussion. I've been flipping domain names as a side-biz for years and I've had ALOT of discussions with other guys who say that GoDaddy sniped a domain from them. In some cases the people have checked on 3rd party sites (like NS), found that the domain was available, then went to Godaddy for cheaper registration only to have GD report that the domain is unavailable. In a couple of instances guys would then go back to NS or their other favorite registrar only to find that the domain was registered by "Domains by Proxy", which is GoDaddy's anonymous registration partner/subsidiary. I haven't personally had it happen to me, but too many people I trust say that it has happened to them for me to ignore it.

gojomo 14y ago
GoDaddy is the largest registrar, and anyone can use their anonymyzation. So 'checking other sites' and THEN seeing that some anonymous someone registered via GoDaddy provides little negative evidence against GoDaddy.
- zupreme 14y ago
  I agree. You couldn't go to court with this type of evidence, but you have to admit that for the site to be available, then within minutes of you searching for it on GoDaddy, it then becoming anonymously registered would raise eyebrows.
  - gojomo 14y ago
    But that scenario -- searching only through GoDaddy (preferably HTTPS), and seeing that domain gone minutes later -- is not described in the comment I responded to. Nor in the parent linked article. Nor was it in the prior report this article mentions. And yet, even if that did happen, GoDaddy gets millions of registrations per year, and many times that in lookups. So losing a domain minutes later is certain to happen many times per year for strictly innocent/coincidental reasons. And some of the advice being given in these sorts of threads -- use DNS/whois lookups, use other random website services -- could be increasing the risk. (Those protocols are eavesdroppable, those services have less to risk than GoDaddy.)

by zupreme 14y ago

gojomo 14y ago

GoDaddy is the largest registrar, and anyone can use their anonymyzation. So 'checking other sites' and THEN seeing that some anonymous someone registered via GoDaddy provides little negative evidence against GoDaddy.

zupreme 14y ago
I agree. You couldn't go to court with this type of evidence, but you have to admit that for the site to be available, then within minutes of you searching for it on GoDaddy, it then becoming anonymously registered would raise eyebrows.
- gojomo 14y ago
  But that scenario -- searching only through GoDaddy (preferably HTTPS), and seeing that domain gone minutes later -- is not described in the comment I responded to. Nor in the parent linked article. Nor was it in the prior report this article mentions. And yet, even if that did happen, GoDaddy gets millions of registrations per year, and many times that in lookups. So losing a domain minutes later is certain to happen many times per year for strictly innocent/coincidental reasons. And some of the advice being given in these sorts of threads -- use DNS/whois lookups, use other random website services -- could be increasing the risk. (Those protocols are eavesdroppable, those services have less to risk than GoDaddy.)