Domain Name "Theft" Warning With a Twist
We know that some domain registrars will register your cool domain name if you search for it and don't immediately buy it. Lesson learned - be careful searching if you aren't prepared to buy.
The new twist is this - I had a site up with category names for content and one of the names was pretty cool in my opinion. I planned to use it obviously or it wouldn't be on my site and also "protect" the domain name for future use. This site was getting no real traffic because of no promotion - it wasn't ready yet but it was getting those various crawlers (searching for domain information) that you may have noticed in your site logs.
When I went to register the domain for this category name, it was taken - and recently. It HAD to be a result of those crawlers because I can't imagine anyone would come up with this on their own. Also the fact that it's now for sale for $367 makes me believe that it was this.
I have no one to blame but myself.
Lesson - don't put cool names that you may want to brand yourself with up on the web without registering the domain name first if appropriate.
You've been warned.
Mark
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