Net Sol "Plans" to Save Registrant Seaches for the Original Searchers

According to Out-Law.com (January 14, 2008), Network Solutions plans to reserve domain names for individual searchers.

Network Solutions is developing a way to hold a domain name exclusively for a person who has searched for that name's availability. The registrar has come under fire for policies to combat domain name scams that critics have said make the situation worse.

Front-running is a domain name scam that involves someone registering a domain name that another party has searched for the availability of and then charging that person more than a normal fee for the name.

In an attempt to combat the scam Network Solutions last week introduced a new policy by which it kept control of searched-for domain names for four days, prompting accusations that it itself was front-running.

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