Monthly Archives: August 2005

Cheeky Internic Cybersquatting

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Today my attention was drawn to a web site called Internic-Whois.com

The owners of this misleadingly named domain seem to be downright cybersquatters.

What is cybersquatting? It’s when a popular Internet domain name is registered with the intention of either selling it to its rightful owner, or using the real owner’s name for profit. Anti-cybersquatting legislation was introduced to make it illegal.

A few checks revealed that copycat Internic-Whois.com has absolutely nothing to do with Internic, which in case you don’t know is a registered service mark of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The official Internic is licensed to ICANN which not only operates the official Internic site, but also provides the free WHOIS database lookup service for all .com, .net, .org and other current domain names.

According to WHOIS, the bogus Internic-Whois.com belongs to an anonymous private person or company residing in a P.O.Box in Boston, MA 02123, USA.

Their website invites you to use their “domain name lookup and search utility”. You might think you were using the official Internic whois service, but you’re not. Instead you’ll find they want you to register a 2 year domain for $50!

Internic-Whois appears to be linked to these other domains:
Instantpc.com
Yourfavorite.com
Bostoncommerce.com
Finitesite.com

You have been warned.

.COM Registrations Only $6.95!

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GoDaddy, the No. 1 most popular domain name registrar, has done it again.

For a limited time they have slashed prices on all new .COM domain registrations down to only $6.95 (plus ICANN fee of 25 cents per domain name year).

That’s $2 lower than their already low $8.95 price. This is a special fidelity offer for their existing customers.

No wonder GoDaddy has become so popular when their main rivals are offering domain names at two to four times their prices.

And that’s not all because with every $6.95 .COM name you also get a free starter web page, free URL forwarding, free email redirection, and many other freebies.

But don’t delay. Take advantage of this special offer now because the $6.95 .COM price ends August 15th.