A warning about Network Solutions whois search front running

Posted on January 8th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

DomainNameNews.com have published an interesting story today warning of domain frontrunning being performed by Network Solutions.

Experiments with attempts at searching for several domains via NS’s whois interface then waiting a while showed that those same domains ( randomly created keywords that have no chance of being coincidentally searched for by another party ) were registered and held by Network Solutions.

I had previously blogged about ICANN’s investigation into domain name search theft and advised you all to use DomainState’s domain all-in-one tool for all your whois/availability searches.

For further info on the Network Solutions situation, check out DomainNameNews’ post here.