Domain selection and trial domains
The Domain Tools project launched the Psychic Whois service (“telepathic Whois”). The telepathic Whois selects variants of domain names containing the entered letter combination and shows how many of them are busy and how much are free.
Such services, on the one hand, are convenient for users, and on the other hand, provide new opportunities for cybersquatters. For example, the Daily Domainer suggests that cybersquatters track the domain selection process.
“You find a great domain, but hesitate to register it, and then find that it is already taken. Accident is possible. But blogs are already actively discussing the opinion that dishonest registrars are selling cybersquatters with information about your research . ”
At the same time, cybersquatters prefer not to park a domain, but to use the “domain for trial” option, which is available for a number of public domains. The registrars providing it offer a five-day period of free use of the domain. This was done in order to make life easier for users who were mistaken (sealed) when registering a domain name. But this initiative also helped scammers in the first place. They created software that can register thousands of domains per hour .
[It seems that Russian squatters also succeeded ...]
On such domains, cybersquatters advertise with Google AdSense for Domains and Yahoo Domain Match.
If in five days the domain begins to generate income in excess of its value, then it is left, if not, it is released, and, possibly, registered again immediately.
Spammers also use “trial domains” in their frauds as a source of temporary Internet addresses that are not afraid to lose due to a ban.
The following figures indicate an increase in interest in such a method of registering and using domains: in December 2004, every day a refusal was issued from 7400 domains taken “for testing”. In December 2006, their number grew to 1.2 million !!!
The share of normal registrations fell from 50% to 2%.
[Delusional this idea with trial domains, delusional ...]
Such services, on the one hand, are convenient for users, and on the other hand, provide new opportunities for cybersquatters. For example, the Daily Domainer suggests that cybersquatters track the domain selection process.
“You find a great domain, but hesitate to register it, and then find that it is already taken. Accident is possible. But blogs are already actively discussing the opinion that dishonest registrars are selling cybersquatters with information about your research . ”
At the same time, cybersquatters prefer not to park a domain, but to use the “domain for trial” option, which is available for a number of public domains. The registrars providing it offer a five-day period of free use of the domain. This was done in order to make life easier for users who were mistaken (sealed) when registering a domain name. But this initiative also helped scammers in the first place. They created software that can register thousands of domains per hour .
[It seems that Russian squatters also succeeded ...]
On such domains, cybersquatters advertise with Google AdSense for Domains and Yahoo Domain Match.
If in five days the domain begins to generate income in excess of its value, then it is left, if not, it is released, and, possibly, registered again immediately.
Spammers also use “trial domains” in their frauds as a source of temporary Internet addresses that are not afraid to lose due to a ban.
The following figures indicate an increase in interest in such a method of registering and using domains: in December 2004, every day a refusal was issued from 7400 domains taken “for testing”. In December 2006, their number grew to 1.2 million !!!
The share of normal registrations fell from 50% to 2%.
[Delusional this idea with trial domains, delusional ...]