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.
When I wrote the original article, Metapredict.com did not resolve to a Web site. Metapredict.com now has a site online:
Like UltraRPM.com, Metapredict.com has a domain search box on their home page. Many people who end up there probably don’t know about Metapredict’s history of registering people’s domain names just after they are typed into domain search boxes.
If your domain has been taken by UltraRPM (dba Metapredict.com) their contact information can be found on Metapredict.com (trent@metapredict.com) or on ICANN.org which gives Metapredict.com contact information as: Trent Cooper +1-626-796-1004.
Do not try to get your domain name back until after the 5-day grace period is over. Metapredict.com practices “domain kiting” or “domain tasting” which means that they register a domain for a 5-day trial and probably only keep the domains that look like there is interest in. Wait until at least 5 days after your domain name has been taken to see if it becomes available again. If it doesn’t become available, then you could contact Metapredict / UltraRPM.
I wish readers the best of luck in getting your domains back.
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Today I was in the process of registering my name (Doug Soderstrom) as a domain name when I happened to find out that dougsoderstrom.com has already been registered by UtraRPM Inc. DBA MetaPredict.com with MetaPredict as the registrant. So I began asking myself why would someone like UltraRPM/MetaPredict want to register my name as one of “their own domain names?” I am not saying that what has taken place is illegal, but such does raise a few questions.
On Jan 2 I had also had a domain ’snatched’ away by MetaPredict (…and very quickly after my initial search; I would guesstimate within 3-5 minutes). I will run the online AVG spyware (as you suggested in a previous blog) and will follow up with results.
Thanks for the info!
Steve
OMG….just happened to me! 2 days ago I was searching domain name availabiltyfor my husbands company…out of my list of 8, 5 were snatched by Metapredict. I will take the above advice and sit for 5 days….maybe even come up with some others to throw them off my trail!
This not a problem of installing spyware or anti virus. The addon which I installed was the problem, I installed the megaupload addons to mozilla firefox browser. Normally when you are typing in the navigation toolbar in your browser, it should search in the web’s domain registarar data base, and if the searched domain name exists( registered )the browser bring the web page from host server where the domain registarar host their web page, and if the domain name is not registered, the browser bring the result that the server not found. In my case I already told that I installed megaupload add-ons, in my computer. When I seach any url through the navigation toolbar, and the searched domain name was not found, the addon hijack the result, and the result was shown in the page of megaclick website. At first as a comman man, I don’t know the megaclick and megaupload are two sides of the same coin. I have plan to create some websites, and searched domain names through navigation toolbar, the registered domain names come with the website, and urregistered domain names comes with megaclick page and shows the page was not found. After two days, I rechecked and found many of my searched and unregistered domain names are registered on next day, mainly by metapredict and by others also. As a common man. I don’t know how my searched and unregistered domain names are taken immediatly, known people must reveal this , whether searched and unregistered domain names are stealed to a database and sold to somebody. I trusted Mozilla firefox and installed, and use it till today, so I think they should take responsibility to reveal this type of s. Anyway I uninstall my add-ons
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