Hey Network Solutions Sniffing Domain Searches By Chance …
January 8th, 2008 by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
People have been making accusations that domain companies have been sniffing customers searches for quite some time now. No one has any hard conclusive proof, but you have to admit it’s hard to make a case why network solutions might have registered this one, check out the whois
http://www.youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com/
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Hahahaa… that is hilarious. NSI you suck big time.
Try: http://www.domainfrontrunningisacrime.com/
or… http://www.boycottnsi.com/
or… try your own people!!!!
January 9th, 2008 at 1:17 am
I tested it myself, and found the exact same thing. See my test.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:25 am
It was on Slashdot today too. Network Solutions has posted an official response about it from their VP Jonathon Nevvet.
Article link is here:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/81082_network_solutions_front_running/
January 9th, 2008 at 4:30 am
So in the article they basically saying they protect us from front runners…by front running…wtf?
January 9th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Thie statement is absolute rubbish - the only way runners would know what we searched for in theior domain search tool is if Network Solutions released searches - unless I am missing a trick here?
They are just stopping you from searching using their tool, but registering the domain elsewhere…
January 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Try checking for those domains in 5 or 6 days time via another registrar. I don’t really agree to it, but we can also double check if they are telling the truth about it.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I’ve completely been hosed. Checked a domain yesterday, today it’s gone. My protection? Bah. Their exorbitant price protection. I would love to use their product, if it was more fairly priced. To really have fun with them, I did a few other whois searches. This should be fun.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:23 am
It didn’t happen to me. i tried a german sentence and it’s still free. maybe they have stopped this completely inacceptable method?
January 11th, 2008 at 11:44 am
After reading this post I went and tried to register “NetworkSolutionsBlowsGoats.com” and it was avail. Now of course Friday rolls around and guess who owns it?
January 14th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Copy-paste from the whois, so that when it drops the record will still be around.
Whois Record for Youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com
( You Guys Seriously Register Everything I Search )
ICANN Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Created: 2008-01-08
Expires: 2009-01-08
Registrar Status: clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: NS1.SONICSEARCHSPIDER.INFO (has 129 domains)
Name Server: NS2.SONICSEARCHSPIDER.INFO
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrant Search: “Campbell, Susan” owns about 13 other domains
Email Search: is associated with about 12 domains
IP History: 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 years.
Whois History: 5 records have been archived since 2008-01-08.
Reverse IP: 127 other sites hosted on this server.
Monitor Domain: [Monitor this domain] Set Free Alerts on youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com
January 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Copy-paste from the whois, so that when it drops the record will still be around.
Whois Record for Youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com
( You Guys Seriously Register Everything I Search )
ICANN Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Created: 2008-01-08
Expires: 2009-01-08
Registrar Status: clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: NS1.SONICSEARCHSPIDER.INFO (has 129 domains)
Name Server: NS2.SONICSEARCHSPIDER.INFO
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrant Search: “Campbell, Susan” owns about 13 other domains
Email Search: is associated with about 12 domains
IP History: 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 years.
Whois History: 5 records have been archived since 2008-01-08.
Reverse IP: 127 other sites hosted on this server.
Monitor Domain: [Monitor this domain] Set Free Alerts on youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com
What’s really funny is that F***NetworkSolutions.com is parked at GoDaddy. Zing!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Had to try it out myself. Searched for “WeLikeLittleBoys.com”, started a new browser session, and it’s now available for $34.99. Somebody call Dateline on these guys and have the “To Catch a Predator” crew inquire about this one:
Domain Name: WELIKELITTLEBOYS.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 18-Jan-2009.
Record created on 18-Jan-2008.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
@ Jake - Haha, Now that’s a way to get them banned from that. Every start searching for pedofile domains at network solutions.