Domain Name Front Running

[Marc Perkel]

I think registries are selling our queries to scammers - that's what I
think.

On 3/31/2011 8:27 PM, Jonathan Kramer, Esq. wrote:
> Marc:
>
> Unless you have a static IP address which is registered to you or your firm
> (see, for example, http://whois.domaintools.com/66.116.74.45), then your
> personal information is fairly secure.  Of course tracking cookies are a
> serious source of concern, but I presume from your posts that you are very
> security conscious and likely flush your system cookies and Flash cookies
> regularly.  The most that would likely be gleaned from your whois queries is
> your IP address connected to the query. If your IP is dynamically assigned,
> then this lessens the possibility of tying your whois queries directly to
> you.
>
> I think that the fact that Gilroy (Garlic...YUM!) announces that it's
> starting a farmers market, and a few weeks later that obvious name is
> registered by a "Joey Pauline" who only apparently has a handful of other
> domains, should not come as a surprise, or suggest that whois queries are
> being sniffed.  Rather, it suggests to me that Joey was "the early bird that
> caught the worm", here the obvious event name.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCSG-NCUC [mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Marc Perkel
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:57 PM
> To: NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Domain Name Front Running
>
> What concerns me is how is it that other people have access to my whois
> queries?
>
> On 3/31/2011 6:48 PM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
>> Not so long ago, it was made on a vast scale at the speed of light, so
>> to speak, and freee for 5 days, hence the name: domain tasting. Highly
>> crooked and the symptom of a broken market.
>>
>> On 3/31/2011 9:43 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>> I can't help but to believe that this is highly illegal. You look up
>>> a domain and the registrars steal your domain name.
>>>
>>> On 3/31/2011 6:37 PM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
>>>> I believe tasting was mostly done by registrars peeking in on their
>>>> own search engine. I could be wrong.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/31/2011 11:23 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>>>> It looks like it has a name. There appears to be some mechanism
>>>>> where if I look up a non-existent domain that lookup is somehow
>>>>> exposed to people who then register the domain if I don't register
>>>>> it immediately.
>>>>>
>>>>> The town of Gilroy is starting a farmers market. A few weeks ago I
>>>>> looked up GilroyFarmersMarket.com and it was available. I come back
>>>>> two weeks later and it's taken.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who is tracking this? How do third parties know that I looked up
>>>>> that domain?