In an article on Slashdot, we find that Network Solutions (NSI) has been caught registering every domain name that users check for availability from their whois service.  So, if you check to see if foo.com is available, and it is but you don’t register it immediately, they register it out from under you.  Nice job there NSI, way to provide a good service to the customer.  I have long suspected that someone was doing this, but I didn’t think the registrar was.  Wow.  Just goes to show that my aversion to dealing with this low life company was not incorrect.

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