With a blog title like that, it’s pretty straightforward that I don’t have good tidings to share. I’ve read it before, but never really “encountered” it, until now. And it wasn’t even me directly.
I’ve been twitting via twitterfeed from my flickr account – a little convoluted, but it works 
I came up with the prefix “flicktweet” for my cross-site posts, again, nothing revolutionary, just a little nicety. My buddy Craig thought it was cool and even took it one step further, he looked up “flicktweet” on network solutions site to see if the domain was available, and it was! So he emailed me his ideas and I thought it was kind of cool too, so for a few bucks, maybe I’d buy the domain name, just to have. Well, I searched, but the domain name was $34.95/year! I thought, wait a sec, domain names are like $8 on godaddy or 1and1.com – why would I pay 4x for the privilege of buying it from netsol. But when I went to godaddy to get it there, but alas, it was gone!? already?! impossible.
nope – very possible.
Network Solutions has a practice of this! If you search for a name, but don’t buy it – they reserve it – for who? themselves i guess. i did some research and this is called “front running” and apparently is a well know practice of netsol (for short, they don’t deserve me typing out the entire name).
i think it’s a crappy practice and will be watching to see if they release it in a few days, as they are “supposed” to do. But what a crappy way to do business.
