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Word of advice: if you see a domain, BUY IT
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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So
Stupid
I had this idea for a character. I had the perfect name. Very few Google references (it's a translation of something in Japanese). I check Godaddy and it's available. Do I buy it then? No. Why? I dunno. Procrastination maybe?
Two days later, it's gone. A squatter took it.
Coincidence?
Maybe. I've checked named on Godaddy many times before and never once had a name stolen. However, I DID check the name on Google first.
So if you ever see a site name and it's available, just register the friggin' thing.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2006
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what is the character?
(sorry about the squatter. no good them be)
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
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So far I've been offered up to $15,000 for a domain that I own. I was waiting for $20,000, but I may wait for even more.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Very nice, Buckaroo.
Hey starman, you may want to check out this /. article. Here's a great piece of advice from the comments there - use the command host -t NS domain.com (obviously substituting domain.com for the domain you want to check) to check on domain name availability, and at least you're only querying your local DNS server and not the whole Internet.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally Posted by starman 
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So if you ever see a site name and it's available, just register the friggin' thing.
Indeed. I too learned that lesson the hard way.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by starman
S. I check Godaddy and it's available. Do I buy it then? No. Why? I dunno. Procrastination maybe?
Two days later, it's gone. A squatter took it.
Coincidence?
I've seen this happen before and I've read about it. If you use godaddy (which I do) and check for a domain, the odds are pretty good that it will get snarfed up by someone. This happened a couple of times to me. I swear godaddy uses bots to auto register a domain if someone doesn't pull the trigger.
As an example, I was looking at a .net domain, almost pulled the trigger but didn't like you I go back and it was taken. Now the .org and .com were not taken which really leads me to believe its a bot.
And yes I'm paranoid 
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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But there were times I checked a name and weeks later it was still avail. I dunno, I'm not convinced GD does it. Someone could very well be checking Google searches as well.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Martha's Vineyard
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I stupidly mentioned to a small group that I was going to register the domain "Cape******". It was available that day, but the next it was gone. There are many capes around the U.S.(cape Ann, Fear, Canaveral etc...), so I thought what a sucky coincidence. However, when i did a search of the person who registered the name I found they lived just two towns away from me.
Hard lesson learned. Don't talk, just do.
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