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I won’t debate about Network Solution’s fiasco regarding their questionable front running techniques, you can read all about this here at NamePros, DomainState, Domain Name News (1), Domain Name News (2), Slashdot , Domain Tools.

There’s even recorded video proof of Network Solution’s Domain Name Front Running:

Really bad karma for Network solutions. There’s a storm of bad PR blasting the net and hitting Network Solutions!

Instead I’d like to show you a genius domain related to this:

www.youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com

I like that

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Nothing really spectacular for a Sedo user but it shows how easy it is:

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Mid december 2007 Google announced its Wikipedia competitor “Knol” (what a name…). My guess is that it will be a huge “success” like Google Checkout (lesson: bad idea to come up with an alternative to a monopoly — especially years later — even when you’re Google) and that only people who also buy iphones will cheer (sorry for the sarcasm ).

But what is funny is that the domain Knol.com doesn’t even belong to Google. It’s owned by a dutch cleaning company that sells vacuum cleaners and steam cleaning equipment. They’re pretty happy about the additional free traffic they receive and even thank Google for that on their site:

Knol Stoomreinigingssystemen wil o.a. de volgende sites bedanken : Google
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nu.nl
Webwereld
TechCrunch
Blogoscoped

De aandacht is echt overweldigend !

Translation: “Knol steam cleaning systems wants to thank the following sites (among others ) […] the attention is really overwhelming!”

How can a company in the internet age decide on a product name without checking the associated domains first? All these people who type-in “www.knol.com” and only find vacuum cleaners? Tsk tsk tsk

Oh and respect for their sys admin - the site is still up despite the traffic.

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Another little yet useful tool for domainers is ParkingWhois.com. This tool tells you where a domain is parked. Simply enter the Domain Name:

It also gives some information about the parking company, for example this one for Sedo.

Works pretty well!

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