When we are setting up some business, we try to find the best domain name and if the budget for a small business is not much, we try to find the best registrar who let us search for domains and register at some good price.
But what if a registrar tries to use phishing techniques to steal the domain name or front run on the whois searches?

Network SolutionsYea i am talking about one of the well known and one of the best registrars known(others are godaddy, domainsite, namecheap etc.), Network Solutions which registers the domain that is searched in its site, and thus the registrant is not allowed to buy the domain anywhere else. And in the whois data, it shows that the domain is available at network Solutions.

This is a pretty old story, but there are people who report the same thing. One of the the registrant filed a complaint at ICANN and they just stated -

“We agree that it’s an unethical business practice, but we can’t do anything to stop this practice. It is legal for Network Solutions to hijack the domain for some ransom, when searched on their site.”

It’s a real unethical practice by them, and people can sometime end paying $35 for registration with them if they have registered it, and the domain is the one which we want really. So be sure to forget Network Solutions to search for domain names. There are many other good registrars for domain searches, suggestions and registrations.

You can still try this out if you want to confirm, search for a good domain name in NS, and after some time check for the same domain name in any other registrar, it would show as unavailable, and whois showing that it is available in Network Solutions! how bad..




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