BUYING A DOMAIN NAME QUESTION

[WAHOONBOX]

HOW DOES THIS WORK? I CHECKED INTO BUYING A DOT COM NAME ....IT TOLD ME TO TYPE IN THE NAME AND THEN CLICK SEARCH.....IT CAME BACK THAT IT WAS TAKEN IN THE "DOT COM" CATEGORY


SO......... I NOW TYPE IN THE WWW. NAME IN MY ADDRESS BAR AND IT DOES NOT COME UP? ..HMMMM....THERE IS NO WEBSITE BY THAT NAME I PICKED.....WHAT GIVES? I THOUGHT THEY SAID IT WAS NOT AVAILABLE BUT YET I CAN'T FIND A SITE WITH MY NAME OF CHOICE.


SO....WHY IS IT NOT AVAILABLE? ARE THESE DOMAIN NAME COMPANIES AUTOMATICALLY BUYING THE NAMES WE RENDER ...ARE THEY BUYING THEM MMEDIATELY AFTER WE DO OUR CHECK/SEARCH ???

[giantfan]

It could be anybody. Even somebody on this site that bought the name in hopes that you would buy it from them at an inflated price.

What about .net or .org or something like that.

[Bking]

I could be wrong but I think just because it is not available doesn't mean it has to be built into a site. Companies will buy hundreds of domain names either to sell or to keep others from buying similar names as there site.

for example

sportfishermen.com there are more ways to spell sportfishermen such as sportSfishermen sportfisherman etc.

point being a lot of names are taken but have no site built behind them.

again that is just my take on it I am sure someone smarter than me will chime in here.

[WAHOONBOX]

It could be anybody. Even somebody on this site that bought the name in hopes that you would buy it from them at an inflated price.

What about .net or .org or something like that.

I AM JUST PICKING NAMES OUT OF THE BLUE...AND SEARCHING....99% OF DOT COM'S ARE TAKEN

AND YET ...I SEE NO WEBSITE OFFERED UP WITH THAT NAME I PICKED ....

I GUESS THEY ARE JUST BUYING A NAME...

AND I WOULDN'T BUY A DOMAIN NAME FROM ANYONE WHO WANTED TO BREAK IT OFF IN MY ....I WOULD RATHER DO WITHOUT.

[giantfan]

I hear ya. F them, but it sure would be a great way to do that online rigging seminar and not have to worry that crap you went thru a couple of months ago.

There must be somebody here that sets up websites that could figure it out.

[clt_capt]

You could try registering the name as a .biz

A lot of folks have gone out and registered everything they could think of - hoping to get rich down the road...

[Bking]

its all about traffic

if you told someone on the street to go home and check out sportfishermen.com and they went home and by mistake typed in sportfishermAn.com if the owner of sportfishermEn.com didn't own both of those names that person would be directed to another site if someone else had bought sportfishermAn.com or if there was no site built under that other name that person wouldn't get to sportfishermen.com

try typing in www.sportfisherman.com and you'll see what I mean

[WAHOONBOX]

OKAY....I'M LEARNING.....

THANKS GUYS....

[Squidnation]

what ever site you are using to find the .com should have a "who is" button. That will tell you a bit about who purchased it. For example if I type Wahoonbox on godaddy I will see that it is taken. If I hit the who is button next to it I will get the following.

Registrant:
Marty Hiatt
168 CAMP MOREHEAD
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512
US

Domain Name: WAHOONBOX.COM







Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Marty Hiatt wahoonbox@hotmail.com
168 CAMP MOREHEAD
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512
US
252-808-0156


Record expires on 20-Jan-2009.
Record created on 20-Jan-2005.
Database last updated on 28-Oct-2008 13:34:19 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.FISHINGPRODUCTS.ORG 69.71.222.134
NS2.FISHINGPRODUCTS.ORG 69.71.222.134


Same with Squidnation.com the following comes up

Registrant:
William Pino
PO BOX B
Tyaskin, Maryland 21865
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: SQUIDNATION.COM
Created on: 07-Mar-05
Expires on: 07-Mar-13
Last Updated on: 06-Mar-08

Administrative Contact:
Pino, William bill@globalfocusconsult.com
PO BOX B
Tyaskin, Maryland 21865
United States
(410) 873-3282

Technical Contact:
Pino, William bill@globalfocusconsult.com
PO BOX B
Tyaskin, Maryland 21865
United States
(410) 873-3282

Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.VOLUSION.COM
NS4.VOLUSION.COM

IF the name you are looking for is not in use you may want to contact the person or company and try to purchase or maybe they will even give it you.

[Robja]

I had a .com domain and forgot to renew it and it got taken so I had to go with .net. When I punch the .com name in it doesn't come up which i guess means the person no longer is paying someone to host their web page.