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Comment by version_five

5 years ago

Edit 2: I looked at the images and read the other comments and realized the poster had a fanciful theory about Namecheap using Godaddy as a proxy to steal the domain name he searched for the previous day. This discussion should probably be closed.

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There was an article not too long ago where someone else claimed this (it was with a .quest domain name) and someone from namecheap categorically denied it.

FWIW, I have also checked domains on namecheap and have not had them squatted.

I'm cynical enough however to believe they could start doing this.

Edit: see https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lwgrkz/comment/gpjp...

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andrewstuart  5 years ago

>> the poster had a fanciful theory about Namecheap using Godaddy as a proxy to steal the domain name he searched for the previous day.

So what's your theory? Coincidence?

Why is it so fanciful that they would not use their own registrar? Seems the inverse to me - if you're doing something shady why would you explicitly identify yourself?

  • HeyLaughingBoy  5 years ago

    Yes, coincidence. People (probably) search tens of thousands of domain names each day. A certain number of those domains will end up being taken by someone else in short order simply due to coincidence.

    It's the same coincidence that causes every really good name I come up with for a site to have been taken years ago. There are a lot of web developers out there!