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Tuesday, July 28. 2009

That's the service on offer from YourSiteCan.BE. The site sports a search box designed to allow any combination of a domain name and a TLD to be queried. If the query returns an "available", then you may elect to pay $8.99.

What are you buying? Not the domain name of course, since no new TLDs have been launched yet. Just the right for the requested domain not to be listed as "available" any longer on this specific website. Yes, that's right, for your 9 bucks you get the privilege of blocking a fictitious domain name from being listed on YourSiteCan.BE!

Customers will also be informed when (or if) the new TLD they have searched becomes available. This so they can come back to YourSiteCan.BE and pay extra, should they want to actually register the name.

Reading the site's FAQ, they make no false claims. They do not claim to be registering domains. They do mention that if the domain being searched for does become available one day, they may not be able to register it.

So in reality, they are not doing anything untoward. Just selling a blocking service on their own site, and information on the launch of new TLDs that is bound to be available from a multitude of sources once it does happen. Amazing the kind of business ideas that new TLDs are generating…

Posted by Stephane Van Gelder in New TLDs at 18:16 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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They also lie. They're reporting domains in .Web as available when they clearly are not. They're registered in the proof of concept system that ICANN acknowledged in the first round in November, 2000.

Not surprising, of course.

#1 Christopher Ambler on 2009-07-30 20:52 (Reply)

? I think chris is confused? of course .web is not available nor .shoes, or .store...And I don't see anywhere on the site where it says available for live use? unless i missed something. Domain names ordered are potential domain names for the near future use. The point of the site is to alert users before general public about these releases.

#2 Tony on 2009-08-01 03:18 (Reply)

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