{"id":170,"date":"2006-07-23T10:48:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=170"},"modified":"2006-07-23T10:48:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T14:48:59","slug":"need-a-domain-dont-use-meta-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/07\/23\/need-a-domain-dont-use-meta-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a domain? Don&#8217;t use meta-search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0%2C1895%2C1991365%2C00.asp\">Whois Hijacking My Domain Research?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>eWeek has an interesting article about a new development in domain squatting.  A company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestertonholdings.com\/\">Chesterton Holdings<\/a> is somehow finding out when unused domain names are being searched and is snapping them up before they can be registered by someone else.  All the domains involved were submitted to a C|Net whois meta-search engine that checks a number of sources.  There&#8217;s no answer as yet as to how Chesterton Holdings is doing this, but until it&#8217;s sorted out I would stay away from whois meta-search sites and do your research manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whois Hijacking My Domain Research? eWeek has an interesting article about a new development in domain squatting. A company called Chesterton Holdings is somehow finding out when unused domain names are being searched and is snapping them up before they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/07\/23\/need-a-domain-dont-use-meta-search\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}