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One is not amused

Posted by stuart as

Interesting thing happened to me today - I registered a domain (through mydomain.com) for a project I am working on, set the name servers, created the account on my web host, and went off to get a coffee, as I usually do, while I waited for the DNS to delegate to my server. (This usually takes up to half an hour)

So I come back and type the domain name into my web browser, and I get what looks like a freaking landing page.

I logged back into my mydomain.com account, to check that I’d set the name servers correctly…….yup!

I get this page covered in AdSense ads, with the following text at the top:

Oops. There may be an issue with the URL Forwarding service for this
domain, in which case our technical staff is currently working the situation. Otherwise,
this domain is currently under construction and will be back online soon.

Hmmm, I wonder how much money a company the size of mydomain could make if they just did this for, say, two hours on every domain registered.

Has anyone else ever come across anything like this?

7 comments so far

Sapphire says January 26th, 2007 at 2:09 am

No, I haven’t, but you’re right. That could be a really profitable little scam. Dang.

sarahG says January 27th, 2007 at 7:27 am

eNom seems to do that too. At first I thought it was just remnants from the previous owner of a domain I’d just bought, but I’ve noticed now that on a new purchase or if I haven’t set up forwarding or the nameservers, a sedo parking page appears on the domain and that cash ain’t going into my account!

Blogoculars says January 29th, 2007 at 3:49 am

I’ve seen this before too. Sometimes domains which have recently been registered are automatically setup with this as a default page whilst the DNS update.

Sneaky little trick ;)

Admin says January 30th, 2007 at 6:40 am

I just wonder how much these people are making doing this :-(

Beres says January 30th, 2007 at 10:42 am

Seems illegal. If you’ve legally paid for a domain, it’s yours. Hmm, there’s a Better Business Bureau in every state.

Admin says January 30th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

You guys are all right - I’m going to send them an email, I’ll post the response.

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