[UPHPU] picking up expired domains

[Mac Newbold]

Today at 12:54pm, phpninja said:

> I just had a bad experience with this recently.
>
> So I am like "ok sweet, I will finnaly have the domain I am watching".
>
> Well after the 5-7 days I get 1 last notice from godaddy.com "SORRY,
> COULD NOT CAPTURE DOMAIN". boy was I dissapointed...
>
> Disgrunted by the whole experience, I wondered who the hell got my
> domain? I took a further look into things. I checked the whois records
> for the new owner of the domain, thinking someone out there wanted it
> to, and at the very least it would be put to good use.
>
> Wrong again! It was taken up by some crapp sub-pay domain service
> called http://www.pool.com . So i visit the site and check it out.
> Well low and behold on the very right they are monitoring 1000's of
> domains expiring and buying them up all up. But how? How do they get
> everyone? I personally think its a whole scheme setup from the top
> down, pure collusion with all the domain companies. I do a search on
> www.pool.com for my domain, and low and behold its in their domain
> section, but probably 100 times the price or more then I would have
> paid for it through a regular registrar service. So in the end I did
> not get my domain and learned that the domain market is a pure crock
> of shit. If you do not come up with an original name yourself your
> doomed for failure in getting that golden domain thats set to expire
> but the owner is doing nothing with it. oh and by the way, my original
> domain i wanted, I visit it at www.thedomain.com and they are just
> using it as a link farm :).. useful huh? anyways just thought id let
> you know before you get dissapointed.

That's a _very_ good reason why you should try buying it from the current 
owner, rather than trying to grab it after it is deleted.

Once the record is deleted, lots of people find out about it at almost the 
same time, and whoever gets there first gets it. Kind of a crap shoot. And 
I'm sure there are lots of groups that just buy up domains that used to 
mean something to someone, hoping that later they'll be able to sell them 
to the highest bidder. Kind of annoying, but perfectly legal unless you 
can show that they bought it in bad faith, or are violating a trademark, 
copyright, or patent of yours.

Mac

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