If you follow internet tech news at all, back on January 8th users were reporting that Network Solutions was domain tasting.

Domain tasting works like this; Using Network Solutions (Net Sol) domain search tool to see if a domain name idea is available, they were immediately putting a 4 day lock on all domain names searched on their site.

Essentially, they were hijacking and stealing domain names and forcing you to register the name at Network Solutions. 

This is downright disturbing and wrong. 

More than likely they did this, because users were using their search tool, then leaving their website to register the name at a competing registrar like GoDaddy.com. It only makes sense to not register your domain name at Network Solutions, since godaddy.com offers domains at 3 times less the price than Network Solutions.

I don’t know why anyone in their right mind would use Network Solutions for registering a domain name because of their corporate politics, over inflated domain prices ($30/domain), and sub-par customer service department.

Customers all over the internet were in upheaval about this unethical business practice, that a few weeks later the incident was taken care of by ICANN Board of Directors passing a resolution ending domain tasting in response to the incident.

Nice to know that was short lived. Network Solutions has added another hit to their already poor company reputation.

Other Articles and Resources:

Read the article by Jay Westerdal at domaintools.com and another article from dotsauce.com including a response in the blog comments from Network Solutions regarding the incident.