JimOptical.com

For those of you who may have missed it, see my post from yesterday under
Domain Name Spying/squatting/hijacking or whatever this might be called.

I'm gonna try something.

Jimsoptical.com
franksoptical.com
bobsoptical.com

fredsoptical.com
tedsoptical.com
johnsoptical.com

Are all available at the moment

I plan to use www.netsol.com to perform a search for the first three. I'll
do that at least three times.

I'll then use a unsecured Godaddy.com search to perform a search for the
second three.

If my guess is correct, nameview.com is spying on these searches and will
snap up a couple of them. If I am wrong, I will presume that I was a
victim of pure coincidence.

I'll post my findings if anything develops.

--
Jim

And lo, Jim didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> I'm gonna try something.
>
> [snip]
>
> I'll post my findings if anything develops.

I, for one, will be interested in seeing the results Good idea.

Grey

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"Jim" <spamaddyTAKEOUT@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:z77Ee.15010$do5.7240@bignews5.bellsouth.net.. .
> For those of you who may have missed it, see my post from yesterday under
> Domain Name Spying/squatting/hijacking or whatever this might be called.
>
> I'm gonna try something.
>
> Jimsoptical.com
> franksoptical.com
> bobsoptical.com
>
> fredsoptical.com
> tedsoptical.com
> johnsoptical.com
>
> Are all available at the moment
>
> I plan to use www.netsol.com to perform a search for the first three.
> I'll do that at least three times.
>
> I'll then use a unsecured Godaddy.com search to perform a search for the
> second three.
>
> If my guess is correct, nameview.com is spying on these searches and will
> snap up a couple of them. If I am wrong, I will presume that I was a
> victim of pure coincidence.
>
> I'll post my findings if anything develops.
>
> --
> Jim
>

I remember back when .coms were starting to be established. Some
enterprising individuals went out and bought common named ones, then sold
them back to the corporations for big bucks. Then they refined the rules,
and that practice is no longer practical for trade names.

I believe I remember that correctly. But, with advancing Alzheimer's, Male
Pre Menstrual Syndrome, and morning after fuzziness, I'm not always sure any
more.

It is amazing how hard it is to get domain names any more unless you do your
own name or something really specific.

It will be interesting to watch your experiment. If you do find spying,
where will you take it?

Steve

after careful consideration, Jim wrote in alt.www.webmaster

> If my guess is correct, nameview.com is spying on these searches and
> will snap up a couple of them. If I am wrong, I will presume that I
> was a victim of pure coincidence.
>
> I'll post my findings if anything develops.

a worthwhile experiment. good idea. do keep us posted.



--
Got lint?

"Jim" <spamaddyTAKEOUT@bellsouth.net> writes:
> For those of you who may have missed it, see my post from yesterday under
> Domain Name Spying/squatting/hijacking or whatever this might be called.
>
> I'm gonna try something.
>
> Jimsoptical.com
> franksoptical.com
> bobsoptical.com
>
> fredsoptical.com
> tedsoptical.com
> johnsoptical.com
>
> Are all available at the moment


Actually, you might try it with names you don't yet tell us, since
posting things here might lead to skewed results from pranksters, or
via automated means.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

"Jim" <spamaddyTAKEOUT@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:z77Ee.15010$do5.7240@bignews5.bellsouth.net.. .
> For those of you who may have missed it, see my post from yesterday under
> Domain Name Spying/squatting/hijacking or whatever this might be called.
>
> I'm gonna try something.
>
> Jimsoptical.com
> franksoptical.com
> bobsoptical.com
>
> fredsoptical.com
> tedsoptical.com
> johnsoptical.com
>

If these domain names are half-inched before you can register them, do you
think it is an automated process or ultimately done by human?

It's just that I, as a human (I think), would smell a rat - or at least a
series of searches for namesoptical.com wouldnt strike me as a dead-cert for
registration. And I don't think this would be an automatic process, it would
take a human 'expert' to hazard a guess at which domain names were likely to
be worthy of registering.

I would dream up a series of unrelated domain names, and randomly divide
them between your two test candidates.

Also, by publishing the domains in advance, I'm guessing that some punters
on A.W.W. would take a peek themselves. Might this influence the results? I
suppose if we all started looking up jimsoptical on GoDaddy, and they *were*
corrupt, it would be very tempting bait for them...

I think I'm thinking about all of this a little too much. I should just go
home early.

Chris

"Jim" <spamaddyTAKEOUT@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:z77Ee.15010$do5.7240@bignews5.bellsouth.net.. .
> For those of you who may have missed it, see my post from yesterday under
> Domain Name Spying/squatting/hijacking or whatever this might be called.
>
> I'm gonna try something.
>
> Jimsoptical.com
> franksoptical.com
> bobsoptical.com
>
> fredsoptical.com
> tedsoptical.com
> johnsoptical.com
>
> Are all available at the moment


Until someone reads your post and decides to register them. ;-)

--Tina