Article alleges Verisign scouts expiring domains as possible auctionable property

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Is Verisign using Dark Forces?

A Verisign IP that visited one of our domain names which expires in a few months, turned up in an article delivering some interesting allegations.

The IP was included on a list of Verisign IP ranges, which according to the post perform the following task:

“This is Verisigns ips-agent bot. What this does is index your site for verisigns Internet Profile Service. This is something that they use to provide traffic data to prospective buyers of domains that are about to be expired.

Verisign is in a unique position of running the .com and .net domain name servers and knows when domains will expire. They are using this information to help sell expiring domains with traffic to bulk domain buyers at registrars such as dynadot.”

While we cannot confirm this statement, the claims are rather plausible; having raw data on tens of millions of domains allows a Registry to research potential leads for its partners.

For the article, click here.

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