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Network Solutions, a domain name firm that registers internet addresses used in its own searches, said it is doing nothing wrong and in fact prevents domain name scams.

The company said it prevented so-called front running, in which scammers take advantage of a five-day trial period domain names without paying for them.

“This is a customer protection measure to protect customers from frontrunners,” said Susan Wade, spokeswoman for Network Solutions.

The company has attracted negative attention however because it tracks terms entered into its search field and registers them itself before selling them for a higher fee.

Vice president of the company, Jonathan Nevett, said in response: “Due to no fault of registrars, front runners purchase search data from internet service providers and/or registries and then taste those names.

“Some folks may not agree with our approach,” he said, “but we are trying to prevent this malicious activity from impacting our customers.”

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I just noticed that these folks are holding an auction. Although I only have one domain worth selling, I figured that other Diggers might have domain names they want to sell and this seems like an easy way to do it. Read the terms carefully, but is seems straight forward to me.

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The type of domain name that a website uses is not necessarily authorised any more, it has been claimed, and can be attained by almost anyone.

Record sales of certain domain names with popular key words highlight the importance of the name of site, yet communications supplier Pipex Hosting has stated that these names are often not actually what they describe.

While there was an original number of rules designed to control what group was classified as an organisation and which were considered a business, Macsen Galvin, development director of Pipex Hosting said today “a lot of registries took a very laissezy-faire kind of approach to see how [the internet] would grow”.

Mr Galvin explained that for a “.org” domain name, a group must in theory be a non-commercial organisation, but in practice “people will go and get a ‘.org’ address if their choice of a ‘.com’ or ‘.co.uk’ isn’t available“.

Users can be confused about which sites are true to their domain names and while Mr Galvin said some sites like the “.kids.us” registrar enforce strict codes for using certain domains, the ones that do not could cause users to be suspicious of any website they use in the future.

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