You have an idea and have been thinking about it for several days. The more you think about it, the more complete it becomes. The more you think about it, the more excited you become. You feel that it is about to change the world. Then you run to the computer screen and start thinking about what the website should be called? Apple.com has been taken away. Can banana.com be registered? Of course, Facebook.com is a no-brainer, but killing Facebook.com may be tricky if you register it.
How do you know if the genius screen name ABCDEFG you came up with can be registered?
Think about it, did you do this:
Go to GoDaddy.com (or similar domain name registrar or hosting provider) to check the current status of this URL, or;
Open the browser and type in ABCDEFG.com to see if the web page is spit out, or;
It’s the same as the second point, but a little more advanced. Open the command window and type nslookup ABCDEFG.com to see if this domain exists, or;
I searched on Google and found a search engine that provides Whois. I typed in ABCDEFG.com to see if anyone had registered. If it was taken, who took it?
Then, when you can’t think of a screen name, some domain name registrars will help you think of a screen name and provide you with some screen name suggestions, such as:
sedo.com, type in the keyword facebook, and on the next page he will tell you that killfacebook.com can be purchased for only $280.
Moniker.com, type in the keyword facebook, he suggested that you consider facebookme.com, which looks like a good URL. You can bid for $59.
With such considerate service, let’s search for a few more possible candidate URLs!
Many people follow the above process and then become interested in two or three websites, and no one registers! very nice!
However, after thinking about it for another two seconds, you begin to wonder if this online name is not good. Otherwise, why would no one register it? Let me think about it for two more days.
Two days later, I finally selected a group of URLs and wanted to register and purchase, but found...
The website has been registered and is being put up for sale at ten times the price!
The above story is not uncommon on the Internet. The well-known blogger Xdite discussed this issue as early as 2008.
This kind of problem is called Domain Name Front Running in English, which means that person B knows that person A is interested in website A through any method, and person B will register it first and prepare to resell it.
As long as you disclose your interest to Person B, the price of the thing you want to buy may happen. But what actions reveal your interests? Didn't you expect that? All the above-mentioned actions of querying whether the URL exists reveal your intention:
Godaddy, Sedo, Moniker.. This kind of manufacturer knows very directly, because he knows which URLs you have searched for on it. After searching several times, he also knows that they are the registrar themselves. They have many ways to retain this website address and may raise the price for you to buy it.
Don’t think that the Whois web page you randomly search on the Internet comes from the heart of the Buddha. This service is provided for you to use for free. Through the number and frequency of queries, he may be collecting people's interest in different website names. He can either keep the most searched website by himself, or he can sell such statistical information to others. Others do Front Running movements.
Is it okay to try typing the URL in the browser bar? Is there anything wrong with nslookup query? have! DNS Server manufacturers will also collect information on NXDomain (Non-existent Domain), and interested people will also buy it, and may perform Front Running actions.
The online world is huge and full of wonders. Wherever there are business opportunities, people will take advantage of them. As long as the possible popularity of a certain website or name is known, in addition to the domain name front running, there are also registrars who will open a web page on the website, and then put up advertisements and other mechanisms to find ways to make money. If this web page five days later If he couldn't make a profit or loss, he would close the website and get the full withdrawal fee. This action is called Domain Tasting. If there is profit, then this website will live there and become part of the registrar's assets, waiting for you to buy this website one day.
The actions of Domain Name Front Running are not recognized by the registrars, but most of them are doing it secretly. Precisely because no one admits that he is doing such things, the things I mentioned above can only be said to be a speculative conspiracy theory, not something that will definitely happen.
Lawrence, the author of Inside, also gave me another example of a conspiracy theory, which is that there is a website that provides services such as "checking password strength." This service itself uses a hacking perspective, perhaps an algorithm combined with a dictionary file. When you enter a set of passwords to be checked, it will try to see how difficult it is to crack the password, and then tell you whether your password is weak. Medium or strong.
This kind of service seems to be from the heart of Buddha, helping you strengthen the strength of your password. But the moment you type in your password, you assist the website operator in adding his dictionary file. Next time he wants to try to hack into other accounts, he will have one more password to try. Think about it if he sold this dictionary file to a hacker, and that hacker tried to hack into your account?
Observing the principles of network operation can help us seek good luck and avoid bad luck. This is also one of the roles that Inside hopes to play.
So what’s the best way to check your online name?
Under Linux or Mac, directly issue the whois command under the shell. For example, if you want to check if anyone has registered on abcdefg.com, just call whois abcdefg.com to check.
This command will directly connect to the login database to query, without passing through services or websites that have set up storage analysis tools.
Under Windows, please download the Whois tool provided by Microsoft. To use it, open a command window and type in whois abcdefg.com.
If you can't understand the above paragraph and don't know how to use it, I suggest you find a friend nearby who knows a little bit about technology and ask her to help you. Or, actually, prepare a little more money, whether the domain name costs 280 US dollars or 350,000 US dollars, it is the easiest to spend money to eliminate disasters.