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When shopping for domains it's best to start at a small WHOIS provider that you trust to give you a yes/no answer. If you shop at NSI or GoDaddy you will find that the domains you were searching might be registered a few days later. Only hit up GD if you're ready to buy (avoid NSI at all costs)

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Just never use GoDaddy. NameCheap is way better.

GoDaddy is the AOL of registrars.

I use both pretty regularly but I would agree that NameCheap is probably the way to go. GoDaddy, with each passing day, has more of a sleazy and cheap feel to it.

Having said that, no matter how dirty GoDaddy makes you feel it won't be nearly as bad as any interaction you'll have with Network Solutions. Stay away from that at all costs.

It's been a few years since I got into a backorder struggle but at the time it was incredibly difficult and ended up dragging out for months and months.

I've ran into losing domain names before when searching on GoDaddy, what are some small WHOIS providers that you trust?

GKG - http://gkg.net/whois

They've had great customer service in the past and have solved a number of domain name issues for me.

Namecheap has whois lookup: http://namecheap.getwhois.net/

You can always use the command line whois client, which is provider agnostic.

I don't know how much to trust them but I use http://who.is because it's memorable.

Interesting, I've long suspected some companies might engage in such practices... I guess one plan is if a domain you want is free right then, buy it immediately. Also, I hate GoDaddy so that takes of that issue...

Eurodns

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