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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:31PM from the that's-why-they-are-the-front-runner dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a developing story, registrar Network Solutions has been caught front-running domain names. Any domain names searched via NSI's whois are being immediately purchased by the registrar, thereby preventing a registrant from purchasing the domain at any other registrar. There are multiple reports of this practice over at DomainState.com." Update: 01/09 01:58 GMT by KD : shashib writes to let us know that NSI has issued a response to the accusations of front running.

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Please don't disturb me. (Score:4, Funny)

by flaming error ( 1041742 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:35PM (#21958426) Journal

I'm working on a program to perform millions of random whois searches via NSI.

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by Shakrai ( 717556 ) * writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:36PM (#21958430) Journal

I was just about to post that ;) Best idea ever.... quoting this [domainstate.com] from DomainState.com: someone could totally script this and run there credit through the roof with the registry hahahahaha.

Assuming it costs them SOMETHING (even pennies) to register a domain with the central registry then I think this is an absolutely awesome idea. I'll run such a script if someone writes it. In fact maybe I'll write one myself, because screwing over NSI sounds like a much better way to spend my afternoon then doing anything productive ;)

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:36PM (#21958442)

uselessdomain00001.com
uselessdomain00002.com
uselessdomain00003.com
uselessdomain00004.com...

too subtle

FuckYouNSI00001.com
FuckYouNSI00002.com
FuckYouNSI00003.com
FuckYouNSI00004.com...

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Well, they're now the proud owners of (Score:5, Funny)

by Malevolent Tester ( 1201209 ) * writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:38PM (#21958492) Journal

network-solutions-hates-non-whites.com
our-ceo-jacks-off-to-goatse.com
batman-touched-my-junk-liberally.com

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:40PM (#21958510)

In fact maybe I'll write one myself, because screwing over NSI sounds like a much better way to spend my afternoon then doing anything productive ;)

You must work for the government.

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Re:Please don't disturb me. (Score:5, Funny)

by sm62704 ( 957197 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:41PM (#21958528) Journal

I'm sorry but what was that again? Sorry, I was working on a program to perform millions of random whois searches via NSI and wasn't paying attention.

What?

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Re:Please don't disturb me. (Score:5, Funny)

by hedleyroos ( 817147 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:43PM (#21958554)

I code in Python. My program is already running :)

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ICANN to the rescue! (Score:5, Funny)

by EllynGeek ( 824747 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:44PM (#21958588)

Don't worry, ICANN will fix everything and make it right!

I slay me.

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by kmac06 ( 608921 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:51PM (#21958740)

Screwing over NSI is productive!

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Re:spam the spammers? (Score:3, Funny)

by the_B0fh ( 208483 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:06PM (#21959024) Homepage

Don't you mean....

justchecking.com ?????

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The greater irony is.. (Score:2, Funny)

by fictionpuss ( 1136565 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:08PM (#21959062)

..that I tested this out using the domain name 'networksolutionsjustlostacustomer.com', which is still up for grabs.. but only via networksolutions, natch.

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by Mr. Underbridge ( 666784 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:11PM (#21959134)

Assuming it costs them SOMETHING (even pennies) to register a domain with the central registry then I think this is an absolutely awesome idea. I'll run such a script if someone writes it. In fact maybe I'll write one myself, because screwing over NSI sounds like a much better way to spend my afternoon then doing anything productive ;)
If you can't write that in under three lines in the scripting language of your choice, you officially lose your nerd card. ;)

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by Sloppy ( 14984 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:12PM (#21959142) Homepage Journal

Make them bankrupt themselves in court. Instead of random names, use a dictionary of trademarks, politician's names, law firm names, etc. Get Network Solutions to register authenticdisneymerchandise.com, applemultimediacomputers.com, deweycheathamandhowelimited.com, advicefrommichaelmukasey.org, etc. Then write a letter of appreciation to Disney, about how grateful you are that they're selling Mickey Mouse porn so cheaply.

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by Sloppy ( 14984 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:14PM (#21959186) Homepage Journal

I can't believe I forgot the best one. Don't forget Scientology. religioustechnologycenterlicensing.com is a great domain name. Network Solutions should snatch it up at once.

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Re:Any way to... (Score:3, Funny)

by Sloppy ( 14984 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:18PM (#21959272) Homepage Journal

Dammit. Network Solutions says religioustechnologycenterlicensing.com is available, but godaddy says it's taken. Oh well. I guess I should write the Religious Technology Center and ask them if they'd like a bid on the website that they are apparently about to launch.

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by the_one(2) ( 1117139 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:28PM (#21959452)

Don't discourage him =)

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by Dan667 ( 564390 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:29PM (#21959472)

In perl, you could do it in one line with a haiku poem.

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Oh, this is fun! (Score:3, Funny)

by dskoll ( 99328 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:31PM (#21959524) Homepage

Look at the domains Network Solutions now owns!

the-real-microsoft.com
the-real-ibm.com
the-real-dell.com
the-real-walmart.com
the-real-esso.com
the-real-general-motors.com
the-real-ford.com
the-real-chrysler.com

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NSI vs RIAA (Score:3, Funny)

by JCSoRocks ( 1142053 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:33PM (#21959548)

Is there some way we can get RIAA mad at them? Register a bunch of domains using the names of songs, artists, lyrics, etc? I think if we could get a NSI vs RIAA fight going the sheer awesomeness of it would be brain melting.

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Re:Any way to... (Score:2, Funny)

by kellyb9 ( 954229 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:39PM (#21959648)

Funny, I tried to register "a';DROP TABLE employees;" - it came back with nothing? Anybody else getting this problem?

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Re:Any way to... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:40PM (#21959654)

I see a new opportunity for some creative ASCII-Art...

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Re:Any way to... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:41PM (#21959674)

FuckYouNSI00001.com
FuckYouNSI00002.com
FuckYouNSI00003.com
FuckYouNSI00004.com.

Hey, those have been registered!

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by SnapperHead ( 178050 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:41PM (#21959678) Homepage Journal

Domain Name: USELESSDOMAIN00001.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/ [networksolutions.com]
Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 08-jan-2008
Creation Date: 08-jan-2008
Expiration Date: 08-jan-2009

Nice, how nice

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Re:The greater irony is.. (Score:5, Funny)

by oahazmatt ( 868057 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:43PM (#21959702) Journal

..that I tested this out using the domain name 'networksolutionsjustlostacustomer.com', which is still up for grabs.. but only via networksolutions, natch.
Ha! I showed them! I got 'networksolutionsjustlostacustomer.net' at GoDaddy!

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Re:Any way to... (Score:4, Funny)

by Rihahn ( 879725 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @05:10PM (#21960118)

Whoa! Don't use that word!

Somewhere in an AT&T monitoring center a little light with a handwritten "Terrorist" tag next to it lit up...

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Re:Not a chance (Score:3, Funny)

by nschubach ( 922175 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @05:35PM (#21960656) Journal

No no... it's safe... you can trust anyone posting an executable under AC. Why would they want to do anything to hurt you?

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by cheater512 ( 783349 ) writes: <nick@nickstallman.net> on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @05:50PM (#21960870) Homepage

Well that page does say that they register 600,000 daily. :)

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Re:It doesn't cost them (Score:5, Funny)

by Fear the Clam ( 230933 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @06:09PM (#21961226)

Which, might in turn make the vile practice of "domain tasting" (which benefits NOBODY but scammers) to be banned.

"Don't taste me, bro" --Domain

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Re:Any way to... (Score:4, Funny)

by morcego ( 260031 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @06:10PM (#21961248)

How about this:

for i in `seq -w 1 100`
do
lynx -dump http://www.nsi.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=dienetworksolutions${i}.com > /dev/null
done

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Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

by fastest fascist ( 1086001 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @06:16PM (#21961340)

Obviously, since the alternative seems to be actually doing something productive, the parent does NOT work for the government.

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LOL (Score:5, Funny)

by cromar ( 1103585 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @06:36PM (#21961690)

All of a sudden Whois.net seems to be loading much more slowly. I wonder what could be happening!

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Clarification from Network Solutions (Score:5, Funny)

by shashib ( 1167725 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @07:14PM (#21962206) Homepage

Hi my name is Shashi Bellamkonda and I work for Network Solutions. Aprreciate the opportunity to clarify. Here is a response on Circleid http://www.circleid.com/posts/81082_network_solutions_front_running/ [circleid.com]. Network Solutions is not front running. We've implemented a customer protection measure to help defend our customers against the actions of "front runners" or those persons who register domain names known to have been searched, for the purpose of monetizing them and then selling them at inflated prices either directly to the customer who searched for the domain or through aftermarket channels. The protection measure holds the searched domains at Network Solutions for up to 4 days so customers can take the time to decide whether registration of the domain name will help them build and protect their brand. Network Solutions is not registering these names at the end of the reservation period with the hope of selling them in the secondary market. Likewise, we're not placing any advertisements on these domains to monetize their traffic while they are in the reservation period.

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Trademark Monitoring & Domains (Score:2, Funny)

by CptMidnight ( 970826 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @07:30PM (#21962400)

Can you imagine the nightmare it's going to create with all those Trademark monitoring organizations out there like MarkMonitor? Can you imagine if you queried high-profile trademark domains such as: MicrosoftSunCiscoWalMartIBMFord.com and they "reserved" the names?

I just hit it and looks like they now own it.

Domain Name: MICROSOFTSUNCISCOWALMARTIBMFORD.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/ [networksolutions.com]
Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 08-jan-2008
Creation Date: 08-jan-2008
Expiration Date: 08-jan-2009

Since Network Solutions registered the domain, I'm sure its triggering a response to MarkMonitor's "clients". I'm sure MarkMonitor and the other TM moitoring sites are going crazy now.

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Re:Please don't disturb me. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @07:49PM (#21962644)

I code in Python. My program is already running :)

Ha! I code in Pascal and was done ahead of you! ;-) :-P

Do you have some pointers? Didn't think so... ;-)

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Re:Any way to... (Score:3, Funny)

by enoz ( 1181117 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @08:36PM (#21963148)

Sure, but nobody could read it.

Which is quite the irony, because it would be the first ever haiku worth reading.

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Another one to add to the list (Score:2, Funny)

by JimboFBX ( 1097277 ) writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @09:39PM (#21963772)

I thought I'd try it out: http://www.payupnetworksolutions.com [payupnetwo...utions.com]

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Re:Any way to... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @10:03PM (#21964018)

Domain Name: FUCKYOUNSI.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/ [networksolutions.com]
Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 08-jan-2008
Creation Date: 08-jan-2008
Expiration Date: 08-jan-2009

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Please don't disturb me. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Well, they're now the proud owners of (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Please don't disturb me. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Please don't disturb me. (Score:5, Funny)

ICANN to the rescue! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:spam the spammers? (Score:3, Funny)

The greater irony is.. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Oh, this is fun! (Score:3, Funny)

NSI vs RIAA (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:The greater irony is.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Not a chance (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:It doesn't cost them (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:5, Funny)

LOL (Score:5, Funny)

Clarification from Network Solutions (Score:5, Funny)

Trademark Monitoring & Domains (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Please don't disturb me. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:3, Funny)

Another one to add to the list (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Any way to... (Score:1, Funny)

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