RookAnalytics.com was mentioned in a comment on my Metapredict post (essential reading for anyone who has ever bought a domain name). Basically, they are a company that swipes peoples’ domain names right after they are searched for. They also do business as Ultrarpm.
Here is what the home page of RookAnalytics.com says:
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I’ve been watching the issue of domain tasting ever since metapredict.com stole my friend’s domain name.
The Register just reported that Network Solution is now domain tasting, with the dubious excuse that they are “protecting their customers”.
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Domain tasting is a serious problem and has led to issues like the ones mentioned in my article on metapredict.com.
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“Subscribers to Verizon’s high-powered fiber-optic Internet service (FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they get redirected to Verizon’s own search engine page — even if they don’t have Verizon’s search page set as their default.”
Frank Schilling comments on Verizon’s hijacking of mistyped domains:
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I’ve gotten a large response from my original post on UltraRPM, and wanted to write a little more about what I’ve found in my research on this company.
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As mentioned in my previous post, Is Spyware Stealing Your Domain Names?, Metapredict.com / UltraRPM.com is a company that is mysteriously registering people’s domain names right after they have been searched for.
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Continuing in the series on domain scams is the story of DomainRenewOnline.com.
I recently received the following email from reminder@domainrenewalonline.com:
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A friend recently looked into buying a domain name. She typed the domain into Internet Explorer and nothing came up. She typed the domain name into the search box at GoDaddy.com and the domain was available. But she didn’t buy it right away.
When checking the domain again the next day we saw that the domain had been registered by someone else just a few hours after she had searched for it. Because the name did not contain any English words (or real words in any language) we knew that it could not have been a coincidence.
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