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That seemed like a wonderful opportunity to set up a script that looked up thousands of bogus domain names (e.g. aaabbbcccddd.com) to spike them.
by goldfeld 14y ago
That seemed like a wonderful opportunity to set up a script that looked up thousands of bogus domain names (e.g. aaabbbcccddd.com) to spike them.
- jordanthoms 14y agoUnfortunately, they can often use the 'trial period' to register the domain after you search for it and then 'return' it a few days later to avoid having to actually pay for the domain.
- mutagen 14y agoNetwork Solutions (and others) were abusing a 5 day grace period in which refunds were available. Ostensibly this was to address typos and mistakes. Domain squatters would also abuse it by registering thousands of typos and random word combinations names and use the grace period to get a 'taste' [1] of traffic. If they thought they could monetize the domain, they'd keep it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
- h2s 14y agoA lot of people did exactly this when the story broke on Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/story/08/01/08/1920215/nsi-registers-every-domain-checked http://slashdot.org/story/08/01/08/1920215/nsi-registers-eve...