Do people not know about Domain "front running"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
It's been "a thing" for years and has changed the way I search for domains.
Namecheap just snaked another domain off me
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Re: Namecheap just snaked another domain off me
#32I just tried to buy wow.quest 2 minutes ago and it feels like the same thing just happened to me. Between me searching and checking out it got registered: Registrar URL: https://namecheap.com Updated Date: 2021-03-03T14:30:25.0Z Creation Date: 2021-03-03T14:30:20.0Z Registry Expiry Date: 2022-03-03T23:59:59.0Z Namecheap gave me a "Oops, looks like the domain was taken by someone else, so we removed the domain from yo…
So by your account, someone at NS tails the search log and hits "buy" when they see something nice like wow.quest?
Re: Namecheap just snaked another domain off me
#33I just tried to buy wow.quest 2 minutes ago and it feels like the same thing just happened to me. Between me searching and checking out it got registered: Registrar URL: https://namecheap.com Updated Date: 2021-03-03T14:30:25.0Z Creation Date: 2021-03-03T14:30:20.0Z Registry Expiry Date: 2022-03-03T23:59:59.0Z Namecheap gave me a "Oops, looks like the domain was taken by someone else, so we removed the domain from yo…
So by your account, someone at NS tails the search log and hits "buy" when they see something nice like wow.quest?
Didn't say that. It's not clear to me what happened, could be a number of things. Probably coincidence.
Just felt like I had the same experience as the person on Reddit. Went to buy an unregistered domain, and it got registered by someone else immediately after I searched for it.
Re: Namecheap just snaked another domain off me
#34Namecheap posted an update [0]:
"UPDATE:
"Wanted to provide an update on this. As you may or may not know, .quest launched this week, and this is a 3 letter domain on top of that, hence the demand. The registrant of this domain is on our platform but is only a customer who historically has purchased domains in a similar vein. As I said earlier, our platform has never been known to register domains after lookup, nor do we share this data with any third parties.
"We have confirmed that the registrant has no affiliation whatsoever with our staff or any of our partners.
"Further, to discuss the logs, the registrant added it to their cart immediately after searching for it, at 2021-03-03 00:18:13.566638 UTC. The OP searched for it but never added it to his cart, looking for it literally a minute before the person who actually registered it checked out (at 2021-03-03 00:17:38.875854 UTC).
"This was merely a coincidence, as we do process hundreds of thousands of domain searches per day.
"Hope that clarifies."
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lwgrkz/namecheap_ju...
Re: Namecheap just snaked another domain off me
#35Someone who claims to work at NC responded down that thread saying "Hi - I'll look into this further as I work with Namecheap, but we don't have a history of doing this as you state." https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lwgrkz/namecheap_ju... Based on the account history, it does look like they work there. https://www.reddit.com/user/tamar
That reddit link has since been updated with an explanation (basically that it really is just a coincidence):
> Wanted to provide an update on this. As you may or may not know, .quest launched this week, and this is a 3 letter domain on top of that, hence the demand. The registrant of this domain is on our platform but is only a customer who historically has purchased domains in a similar vein. As I said earlier, our platform has never been known to register domains after lookup, nor do we share this data with any third parties.
> We have confirmed that the registrant has no affiliation whatsoever with our staff or any of our partners.
> Further, to discuss the logs, the registrant added it to their cart immediately after searching for it, at 2021-03-03 00:18:13.566638 UTC. The OP searched for it but never added it to his cart, looking for it literally a minute before the person who actually registered it checked out (at 2021-03-03 00:17:38.875854 UTC).
> This was merely a coincidence, as we do process hundreds of thousands of domain searches per day.