Courtesy of Dotsauce.com

Network Solutions is an ICANN accredited registrars yet their tactics are dirty. The domain name tasting strategy being reported by Adesblog in a detail way but not revealing who is the culprit. However, Network Solutions is one of them. It’s so ashame because as an ICANN accredited registrars, they would not apply this dirty tricks to manipulate the industry.

One of the Network Solutions staff, Shashib giving a long response in the comment section as :

Hi ,

I work for Network solutions and wanted to clarify our side.

We are not monetizing these domains, nor do we intend to keep them after the holding period.

Network Solutions is not front running. “ Front Runners” are people who register domain names known to have been searched, for the purpose of monetizing them and then selling them at inflated prices either directly to the customer who searched for the domain or through aftermarket channels.

We have started protecting all domain name searches at Network Solutions by holding the searched domains for our customers for a short period of time before releasing them. This gives our customers the opportunity to register names later without fear that the name will be registered by a “Front Runner.”.

We did this because we heard customers complain that queried domain names are being snatched up by other people as soon as they searched. Network Solutions makes sure its search data is secure and we do not sell it any third party. I know that Network Solutions has no intention of keeping any searched domain or monetizing it

But the reply is not a good and strong point seems as all the community not agree with the statement. However end users has the power to choose. Read around the web and you will find the whois sites that sell the database to the domain tasting company. Avoid to search your desired domain with them practically if you loves the domain very much.

*Just bought the 5L.com domain which is the dictionary word for Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. It’s a Beruk dot com.