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The next time you run "whois" on a domain
don't be surprised if you find that a guy named "Luis" from "Barranquilla" owns
it already.
A couple days ago I wrote a program to look
for "mildly pleasing" 4 letter tld's (example: quzu.com) - trying to find
something as cool as 'miva' for our scripting language. On the same day
the program was run, July 18th, I emailed my friend the list of the 50 domains
it found. The next day - all 50 domains were registered - with a
registration date of July 18th.
At first I thought that someone had sniffed
my email or my 'whois' queries en-route. (I'm still not sure if I was
wrong) Anyway, someone from 'eee.net' was in the last leg of the process
of registering ALL of the remaining 4 letter .COM's.
If you do a whois on any of these domains
you will find them:
AUAR.com,AUCF.com,AUDZ.com,AUJA.com, AUKA.com
This guy has registered more than 150,000
4-Letter TLD's with Network Solutions. And, unless they give special bulk
pricing - or there's a back door in the SRS system - that means that over $5
million dollars was spent in an effort to keep drive the price up on small
domain names. Better than a mutual fund?
There's probably more to this story (like
Network Solutions never heard of him - or worse - he used to work there), but
I've reached the end of my investigative rope.
-
Erik
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