I have been watching for a certain domain to become available. I watched as its expiration drew near, and I watched it as it entered the redemption period. I watched it as it entered the list of domains that will soon be expiring. I watched it as it entered the list of domains that are expunged from the official records.
It was officially expired in April 2008. Today, it was officially removed from the list of domains that are already taken. I watched this using Go Daddy, a discount registrar. If I remember correctly, the domain had been previously registered to someone through Go Daddy. I pop on over there, just 20 minutes after it had officially been removed, and found that it was snaked up by “Go France Domains.” Strangely enough, it is a subsidiary of Go Daddy.
Is this one of their business practices to snake unexpired domains and sell them at a premium? Bastards. I just did a quick check with them for “piehole.com,” and they list some “Premium Domain Names.” They claim that
Premium domain names are more valuable than typical domain names because they are based on common words and phrases.
GoDaddy.com does not own these names but is one of the few registrars offering them on behalf of their third-party owners.
“Third-party owners” sounds suspicious. Let’s do a whois query of a “Premium Domain Name” that’s related to piehole.com: PieShell.com
WHOIS information for: pieshell.com:
[whois.fabulous.com] pieshell.com is FOR SALE. Please visit www.pieshell.com for price and purchasing. Domain pieshell.com: Domain Active Pty. Ltd. PO Box 262 Clayfield, QLD 4011 AU
Next step in this search sends me over to Google Finance:
Dark Blue Sea Limited is an Australia-based supplier of online direct navigation traffic. The Company owns a portfolio of over 400,000 direct navigation domains. Through its primary product, Fabulous.com it manages over 600,000 third party domains, giving it a distribution network of over 1,000,000 generic domain names in 550 industry areas. The Company’s business units comprised: Roar / PageSeeker pay-per-click online advertising portals; Fabulous a domain name registrar and domain name traffic manager; Dark Blue, an online advertising affiliate network manager; Domain Distribution Network, a platform for real time secondary market domain name sales, and the Company’s domain name portfolio. As at 30 June 2007, Domain Active Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dark Blue Sea Ltd, owned approximately 539,000 Internet domain names.
Hmm. This gives me a dead end. The good news, I guess, is that “Go France Domains” has this for a one year term. That means that in about a year and 70 days, I can try for my domain again. If only I had the time, energy and resources to actually form a corporation using my wanted domain name years ago, then I might be able to file a WIPO complaint to get it.
Bastards! The real pisser of this is that it was going to actually be used for the benefit of mankind, not just a throw a way domain like isnortedkeithrichardsdad.com
Until a year and 70 days or so, until the domain expires again, Go Daddy can BLOW IT OUT THEIR PIE HOLES!
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