Elliiot’s blog says “people who may be able to screen their searches” So my important question is how do people screen network solutions searches? Does this mean a company like buydomains.com will register a whois name search done on the network solutions site and then charge you a huge big fee to purchase it from them?

This buydomains.com is a really big problem. So I’m grocery shopping and walk downthe grocery isle and look at the ingredients on the last box of ABC cereal. Buydomains.com is watching and notices I’m looking at the ABC cereal so they buy it and run to the end of the grocery isle and want to charge me $600 for a $3.99 box of cereal. Definitely unethical!!

And here’s what they’re really hoping to accomplish by removing their front-running tactic from the WhoIs look up…they know that the millions of unsophisticated domain searchers are those most likely to pay their top dollar $35 price/domain (as an aside; none of us has the right to tell another company what to charge for their products and services; even as ridiculous as we believe them to be)…while all of us more experienced/ knowledgeable folks who know–or will figure out–that we can just use their WhoIs search page to avoid their draconian domain grab…and stop frying them on the domains boards, blogs, and in the press (which is not going to happen anytime soon).

So you see, they’re hoping to have it both ways…continue feasting on the uninformed willing to cough up $35/name…while allowing all of us (who don’t give them our business anyway) to continue to use their WhoIs in the hope that we’ll all shut up…

…and the thing is…it just might work.

Imagine, NetSol protecting my best interests.

I can sleep better.

Thanks for listening – We are not monetizing these domains, nor do we intend to keep them after the holding period.