As we posted last week, on Thursday 11 July 2024, “SEO Web Recovery” registered 1238 expired domain names in a single day, exclusively through the auDA Accredited Registrar Drop.com.au(.)
The entire number of expired domain names that were dropping on that single day was 1469.
So, this means that SEO Web Recovery, registered 84% of every single domain name that expired on that one single day.
Every domain name had the DNS set to: “ns3.abovedomains.com” and “ns4.abovedomains.com” which allowed for “domain parking revenue” to occur.
Then, within 72 hours of registration, (roughly around 70 hours after registration), Drop.com.au deleted 1223 of the domains for “SEO Web Recovery” which means SEO Web Recovery didn’t have to pay for those domains, and neither did Drop.com.au(,) all according to auDA’s “Cooling Off Period” rule.
auDA’s “Cooling Off Period” rule (auda.org.au/policy/au-domain-administration-rules-licensing) states:
Did any of these three reasons above happen with “SEO Web Recovery” for Drop.com.au to go ahead and delete the 1223 domain names?
Download the FULL LIST of 1238 domains “SEO Web Recovery” registered on 11 July 2024.
Listed below are the only 15 domains “SEO Web Recovery” kept from the 1238 domains they registered through Drop.com.au last Thursday:
cajunking.com.au
corporatecomfort.com.au
ecomarketplace.com.au
feaelectrical.com.au
headlightsrestorations.com.au
kangaroopawlandscapes.com.au
livingelectrical.com.au
mastermassageandspa.com.au
motivatedbydesign.com.au
mydrbill.com.au
saltpadbury.com.au
skindeepbeauty.au
theconventhuntervalley.com.au
trailermadefood.com.au
tumutbowlingclub.com.au
As we posted last week, “10newsaustralia.com.au” was one of the domains they registered, and you can see the screenshots of the parking pages, but then they deleted this domain around 70 hours later (within 3 days of auDA’s cooling-off period).
The “10newsaustralia.com.au” website, and domain, now deleted, looks like this:
Someone should look into who owns SEO web recover and what their relationship is with Drop.
How does auda let this happen?
Reach out to the Registrant and offer to buy their many names and you will be shocked ( or not shocked at all ) who responds…
I don’t want to post on linkedin for fear of being punished but i had no idea this sort was going on. this is just ludicrous
It’s called ‘domain tasting’. Buyer gets 3 days to see if it gets any inbound enquiries. If it does, it can retain those names and flick the rest. Automated. Zero risk.
Hard to see it being done without Drop’s cooperation. Otherwise someone would have to sit there and bid on each name and the time lost could not easily be recovered.
This is what ChatGPT says of Domain Tasting:
“Domain Tasting is not considered good practice by domain registries and is regarded as an abuse of the domain registration system”.
I think Scott Long said it best in his “review of .au domain management” back in 2017…
“UBU – Unauthorised Business Usage
The namespace currently consists of the total of valid .au domain names possible according to auDA registration policy AUDA policy Schedule C – 1, and must have appropriate detection and prevention mechanism against bad faith registrations. Security problems are an extreme concern for the DNS, because it is the first (and often the only) line of defence ensuring unsuspecting Internet users are not fraudulently redirected to websites masquerading as other popular websites, or otherwise stealing traffic that is not rightfully theirs.
UBU is a problem that may appear not quite as severe compared to other technical compliance issues, but a serious problem nonetheless, it directly affects multiple stakeholders and the integrity of registrars, registry operator and regulator. Bad faith access to the .au namespace can impact business owner reputation and brand recognition trust.
UBU’s are tested to see how much traffic it received. If the name attracted the desired amount of traffic, the domain was retained.
Domain tasting
Domain kiting
Bit Squatting
Similar UBU’s practices.
An individual or company registers a domain name, fills it with pay-per-click ads, and then monitors the website for about four days. If it appears that the website will produce more than $6 of advertising revenue over the course of a year, then the domain name will be profitable, and the registrant will maintain the pay-per-click website. If, however, it turns out that the website will not generate enough pay-per-click revenue (i.e. it will generate less than $6 per year), the registration is abandoned.”
[https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/submissions/scott_long_submission.pdf]
AUDA staff and management and Board will do nothing.
They are often too busy on junkets or working from home or at DISNEYLAND using up the customers money
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2018/04/25/domain-name-auda-dispute
hey, where did Raja Jata go?
you said he bought one thousand domains in February – https://assets.com.au/who-is-raja-jata-trillion-direct/
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