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Re: [registrars] Network Solutions is Front Running!!!

  • To: Jay Westerdal <jwesterdal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [registrars] Network Solutions is Front Running!!!
  • From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:14:51 -0800
  • Cc: "Nevett, Jonathon" <jnevett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Registrars Constituency <registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Jay Westerdal wrote: 
Jon,
What the hell are you guys doing over there?

http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/network-solutions-steals-domain-ideas-confirmed/

I think this gives the entire industry a bad name! Personally I think it is
unethical and hope that you go fire the person that thought this was a good
idea. Network Solutions just gave themselves a huge black eye on this one. I
am not sure how much damage control you can do on something like this.

Jay

I check the following 1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445.com via whois. Available.
I then went to the NS retail site and checked if the domain was available. It was. I was surprised to see the marketing of "misspellings", but that not front-running, exactly.
I then check 1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445.com via whois, only a few minutes had elapsed from the prior check.

Registrant:
This Domain is available at NetworkSolutions.com
  13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
  HERNDON, VA 20171
  US

Domain Name: 1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445.CO
M

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This Domain is Available - Register it Now!
600,000 domain names are registered daily! Don't delay; there's no guarantee
that a domain name you see today will still be here tomorrow!
Register it Now at www.NetworkSolutions.com.
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  Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
     Network Solutions, LLC            domainsupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
     13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
     HERNDON, VA 20171
     US
     1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620


  Record expires on 09-Jan-2009.
  Record created on 09-Jan-2008.
  Database last updated on 9-Jan-2008 00:09:30 EST.

  Domain servers in listed order:

  ns1.reserveddomainname.com   205.178.190.55
  ns2.reserveddomainname.com   205.178.189.55

This is surprising. At least, I'm surprised.
Eric


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