This script quickly finds the whois information about a domain. It is also available for download.
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
“I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance that the person who owned it wouldn’t be renewing it. Upon consulting the WhoIs registry on the current owner, I discovered the guy was a bit of a domain shark and didn’t seem to be around anymore.”
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Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards
“This complaint is regarding Verisign’s recent decision to claim all non-registered .com and .net domain names for itself. It has done this by inserting a wildcard into the DNS registers, meaning an IP of 64.94.110.11 is returned for any domain name that has not yet been registered. That page is an advert for Verisign’s domin registration services This is unfair competition with existing registrars — there is no means for myself, for example, to gain a similar foothold without actually purchasing each and every currently unregistered .com/.net name.”
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SnapBack – Secure Your Domain
“Search for soon-to-expire names available for back-order. The SnapBack back-ordering system helps you secure desired domain names and protect the names you already have, all for only $69 a year.”
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HostProfessor
“This is [the] ultimate resource to find / compare / research … cheap web hosting and domain name registration. Try our search engine / directory / review to find a reliable with low cost / budget / affordable web hosting server.”
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THE .ORG TLD IS A PUBLIC TRUST
“This is a joint bid between the Internet Multicasting Service (IMS) and the Internet Software Consortium (ISC). We are both public benefit corporations with a long history of operating public works and creating freely available software for key infrastructure services on the Internet. The .org Top Level Domain (TLD) is the home for the noncommercial organizations of the world, and we would operate the .org registry service as a public trust…”
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VerisignOff.org
“Network Solutions is a company owned by Verisign that registers and administers top-level domain names for customers throughout the world. These companies engage in a variety of business practices that are, in our opinion, unethical, fraudulent, and calculated to be opaque and unfriendly to consumers. Despite many well-publicized, and in some cases, frankly nefarious, scandals involving these companies, millions of people continue to patronize them as the registrars for their domain names.”
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Let’s put Verisign to death
“Here’s a rallying point: A domain, hoopla.com, has been stolen with NetSol’s complicity. A guy in Berlin faxed in a regstration for the domain (which was not set to expire until June) and NetSol handed it over to him. Instead of rectifying their error, they have told the owner to go to hell, negotiate to buy the domain from its new “owner,” or just get lost. Let’s put NetSol to death. We’re the Alpha Geeks of our social circles. When people ask us about registering domains, let’s be sure to tell them to register anywhere except NetSol, because they will sell your domain to someone else and do nothing about it.”
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Tracing corporate ownership by looking at URLs
“…I recently visited ESPN’s website, which, oddly enough, no longer resides at the simple URL of http://www.espn.com. Yes, technically you can get to the ESPN.com online presence by typing those letters in, but if you watch your browser, you’re really redirected to http://msn.espn.go.com…”
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Network Solutions Blocking Transfers
“…I thought everyone might like to know what Network Solutions is doing to discourage domain transfers. In the good ol’ days, you could request a transfer from NSI to another registrar. The new registrar would make the request, the admin contact would approve the request, and the ‘losing registrar’ couldn’t block the request unless the domain owner owed money or the registration had expired… About 20 days ago, NSI changed the process…”
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