Hi all,
I have been searching for a domain name for a new service we were planning to
launch. I shortlisted a few good ones which were available and went back to
register them the next week. To my surprise, I found them not available. These
are not common names - they are very specific to a niche service and I doubted
that somebody else would have thought the of same names at the exact same time.
On googling, I found that Network solutions and some other registrars do
something called 'front-running' where they basically block all domain names
that were searched for and force you to pay more.
There is a work around to this - Use
http://instantdomainsearch.com/
http://www.saferwhois.com/
Hope this helps somebody.
Thanks,
kc
K. C. Ramakrishna