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by beau
2105 days ago
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Hi, I own/operate Instant Domain Search. We make plenty of money from GoDaddy and other partners by helping them find domain names. We show results quickly because we check if your search is in the zone file. We keep a copy of the zone file in memory, and check searches against that. Some names are "unconfigured" for a variety of reasons, and do not appear in the zone file. So this means we might show a name as available, but when you go to register it, it's gone. This sometimes leads people to believe that we've registered it for ourselves. If you check the WHOIS record, you'll usually find that it's been registered for years before you searched for it. The only major registrar that I know of that did this was Network Solutions. They did it for a few days in 2008 before getting trashed in the press: https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/01/network-soluti... More recently, when we show a name as available, we'll check again with VeriSign (who runs the .com registry) to make sure. And if it's not available, we'll switch the color from green to red -- a good example is eager.com. It's not in the zone, but not available to register. |
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