decbohan22
New Member
Hello,
I am furious here and I will no doubt get people saying that I am paranoid.
Last week I drew up a list of .ie domain names that I wanted to check to see if they were available. I cam across two excellent domain domains that I couldn't believe were registered.
I then checked to see if I could do something with them from a set-up and business point of few. So that took a few hours and I went down to the CRO and registered the business name that I intended to use.
Now the two domains are totally different and have zero to with each other. One is 'child' related and the other 'wedding' related.
I waited all week and then as soon as the business name became 'live' I went straight to register it and low and behold the first one was gone.
I was, and still am fuming - but that's life and these things happen. It meant phoning the dropship company as I had placed a memmbership and brochere pack I was sure I'd be okay. Live and learn I guess.
Then I typed in the second domain name and it is registered also! Major fuming now and throw my Sky Plus remote across the room - I missed out on two of them in just less than a week.
Again, I thought - these things happen - until I looked at who registered them. It was the SAME woman! that registered the two domains on the very next day that I had serached a WhoIs for.
Now, as far as I'm concered there is no doubt that something is going on here. There is just no way that someone would register these two domain names on the same day.
Some of you will say 'well, you were going to register the two of them'. Well, yes I was but the odds of someone else wanting these to register that same unrelated domain names on the same day is just impossible.
I believe that it is something to do with the particular WhoIs that I used. I'll say no more as I simply do not have the proof and so don't want to cause myself or the board any unnessecery hassle.
I'm curious as to what people think. Has anyone else had anything similar like this happen?
Declan
I am furious here and I will no doubt get people saying that I am paranoid.
Last week I drew up a list of .ie domain names that I wanted to check to see if they were available. I cam across two excellent domain domains that I couldn't believe were registered.
I then checked to see if I could do something with them from a set-up and business point of few. So that took a few hours and I went down to the CRO and registered the business name that I intended to use.
Now the two domains are totally different and have zero to with each other. One is 'child' related and the other 'wedding' related.
I waited all week and then as soon as the business name became 'live' I went straight to register it and low and behold the first one was gone.
I was, and still am fuming - but that's life and these things happen. It meant phoning the dropship company as I had placed a memmbership and brochere pack I was sure I'd be okay. Live and learn I guess.
Then I typed in the second domain name and it is registered also! Major fuming now and throw my Sky Plus remote across the room - I missed out on two of them in just less than a week.
Again, I thought - these things happen - until I looked at who registered them. It was the SAME woman! that registered the two domains on the very next day that I had serached a WhoIs for.
Now, as far as I'm concered there is no doubt that something is going on here. There is just no way that someone would register these two domain names on the same day.
Some of you will say 'well, you were going to register the two of them'. Well, yes I was but the odds of someone else wanting these to register that same unrelated domain names on the same day is just impossible.
I believe that it is something to do with the particular WhoIs that I used. I'll say no more as I simply do not have the proof and so don't want to cause myself or the board any unnessecery hassle.
I'm curious as to what people think. Has anyone else had anything similar like this happen?
Declan