Hasta La Creative!

Ever gotten the idea for a great domain name, checked if it’s available only to find moments later that it has magically and suddenly been bought by the registrar you were using to check the availability with?

The practice is called “domain tasting”. While you’re mucking about and for whatever reason decide to not click “buy it” just yet – perhaps to check if other spellings are available – the registrar buys the domain. This forces you, if you still want the domain to register with that registrar which is most likely more expensive. This practice has been pissing people off for years. So it’s no wonder that a class action suit has been filed today, naming both Network Solutions and ICANN as the bad guys.

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