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  3. January 2008

Re: Fw: Notice of Internet Domains Intellectual Property Right

Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Someone does an availability search for a domain on a site (I think it was GoDaddy or such).
The domain is available.

A few days later, he does the same search, and now the domain is registered to a dummy corporation, and he is offered the opportunity to purchase the domain name.

Network Solutions seems to have been caught doing it ...

http://www.domainnamenews.com/featured/domain-registrar-network-solutions-front-running-on-whois-searches/1359 or http://tinyurl.com/2y5exd.

david


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