Comments on: Does Domain Hijacking Spyware Exist?

By: Godaddy Suck

Godaddy Suck — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:42:05 +0000

I have had it happen with a domain name i paid for 24 hours previously with some slow registrar. i really need the domain. people should not use godaddy.com

By: Tiat Leong

Tiat Leong — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:31:27 +0000

I checked for mine using NameCheap.com and on the same day, it was gone! This is indeed frustrating… It was taken by UltraRPM too.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:24:00 +0000

I have heard of this too with godaddy. I would like to think it is just a coincidence but who knows. Best thing to do is write out a bunch of domain names that interest you and then do your searching for them and immediately buy it if it’s available.

By: mj

mj — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:06:57 +0000

I don’t think it has anything to do with IE. I searched for mine on goDaddy.com using Firefox 2 and the same day (a few hours later) it was registered by that same company UltraRPM.

By: suzi

suzi — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:51:45 +0000

I encountered the same problem- this company called UltraRPM stole my domain name few hours when i failed to buy it. i truely don’t know what to do. Indeed i don’t know why the practice is not being punished by the law. I am suspecting that a sort of datamining was used to pick the domain name i wanted to purchase, since this domain name is not an english name at all. The domain was registered by UltraRPM on May 25, we are already May 29. I just hope that they’ll release it in the 5 days period, otherwise i’ll consider leagl action since the name of the domain is my company’s name that is fully registered and protected.

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:37:56 +0000

If by safer you mean “reduce the risk of this happening to me”, I’d say yes.

Because FF and other non-IE browsers don’t do weird Active-X magic tricks.

By: PapaJoneh

PapaJoneh — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:29:17 +0000

wow… this sound dangerous. Will using FF safer?