Cybersquatting

You look up an obscure name, find it's available, then go to register it the next day and it's gone.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that groups are sniffing searches and then purchasing the domain name and "Squatting" on the domain to profit from resale.

It just happened to a client of ours.

He researched several options at Network Solutions, sent me is choice on Friday. On Monday, we went to register it and it's been purchased by a firm in the British West Indies - a domain squatter.

I've moved to using NSLOOKUP as a more secure method of checking names

nslookup www.clipmybigtoe.com





















To get more details, change NSLOOKUP

nslookup -querytype=ANY www.orbisdesign.com