****WARNING****
All is not well or fair in the Internet arena - Big surprise, right?
Sites such as Ulrarpm and metapredict will screw you over and steal any domain names you don't IMMEDIATELY snatch up. I don't know HOW they are doing it, but let's just say that if you are an entrepreneur, and are looking for a particular domain name and do a search at any registrar out there and it shows it's available and you don't grab it right then and there, don't be surprised if one of those companies above or similar doesn't own it the next day and have it 'parked' like some opportunistic squatter wanting $100000s for a $5 name.
I always suspected this was the case, but now I see it's for real. Someone is feeding a list of search requests or selling them or whatever, to these people who can then decide if it's a good sounding name and then take it for themselves. This is called domain kiting - - like kiting a check. Apparently there's a 5 day grace period with domains and what this company and others like it do is grab all of these domains, toss up a parked site and see what sort of traffic comes to see it's potential value.
Too bad most of us don't realize this goes on. So here I am trying to notify the masses.
I know I may sound like I'm whining, but what I'm trying to do is make everyone AWARE that the playing field isn't level and if you are someone who needs domain names, then be very careful when you go search and be ready to buy then and there or you can expect it to be gone tomorrow.
Think I'm crazy? Check out these links Domain Stealing
and this site - metapredict/Ultrarpm should be brought down and beaten senseless Registering 100,000s of thousands of domain names daily turning the internet into a giant empty parking lot
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