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Old 12-11-2007, 09:24 PM  
papill0n
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Originally Posted by DeviousBros. View Post
Been using whois.sc to search for domains for years...

However, this past week i had jotted down 3 or 4 'maybes' to my list of several domains to register - sleep on them overnight kind of thing.

Next morning, I go to register, and they're gone. Very unusual, especially considering the extremely unlikely possibility of that happening. I mean, it hasn't happened in my 4+ years of registering domains.

Anyways, I do a bit more poking around, and find that these domains are all reg'd by 'Metapredict', and a bit more poking suggests that they are immediately 'tasting' or 'kiting' the domain for 5 days, and if they're not interested releasing them under some type of 5 day grace period rule.

Long story short, this sucks. Anyone had this happen, and if so, how do you get around it?

yeah its happened to me and thats why I stopped searching for domains like that. domain tasting is real and it sux.
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