Are all domain registrars crooked?

I swear all domain registrars now days are crooked. What's worse are the idiots who run the ICANN and their "5 day refund" policy. It just screams "abuse this feature". I understand some people want to actually park ads on a domain name and nothing more, and that's fine, but do you ever notice that domains which were at one time established are in a constant ad serving setup? I mean, these things "expired" sometimes YEARS ago, yet they're so locked with renew/delete/update/transfer/inventmorewords update status you can never get them. Backorders? Ha, I've wasted enough on those only for them to still be magically continue serving ads.

I've got this feeling the whole "domain privacy" registration feature is more for registrars to hide their abuse behind what the public cannot see. I've seen so many domains of interest that expired years ago consistantly serve eNom, GoDaddy, and other registrars ads. Sure "they are just parked on our servers" but who is making the money? Who has the domain locked down? So you do what they tell you and signup for their "Drop services", "Domain Auctions", and "Backorder" systems, which best of all are non-refundable, or maybe you're such a sucker you got talked in to the $60-150 process of "Buy this domain regardless of who owns it.. our reps will find a way!" yeah yeah, it's all what we like to call bullshit. I've pretty much given up on trying to obtain domains that have expired. I wish the ICANN were regulated better so they can actually do something about this shit. It's not even like I have a problem paying for the domain. I've paid anywhere from $6.95 up to $4500 for domains before. No big deal, atleast I got the damn domain, finally.

So my ran is more or less about what anyone in a competitve market already knows; domains in those markets are impossible to get most of the time regardless of your pocket books. I've contacted everyone from eNom/GoDaddy phone support up to their legal departments asking about the abuse that continues in the domain industry and to just give me a damn price on the domains of mine which are of interest. No, that'd be too easy, but they'll yap for 1 hour about trying to get you on their "services" that help you get expired domains. I think not. I tried that once, and you both failed me. Why should I trust you again? I shouldn't, and no one else should either.

Does anyone remember about the domain whois infos being "hacked" (more like, blatently leaked/sold) which then resulted in a few of these domain whores buying up any domain name someone did a whois on? Whoops, they didn't buy them. I forgot they can use the 5 day refund period to just park their fucking advertisements on the domain and if the traffic to said domain will in 1 year be more than the price of the domain hey why not just keep it it's not like you have ANYTHING to lose, becuase you don't, and at the end of those 5 days if the domain truely blows you can get your money back. Sounds like a great idea. It's just too bad that only a handful of people benifit from that. How about letting us get 5 days on DVDS and CDS, you know, so we can just burn them all like we do from Netflix and then get our full money back? Of course that won't happen, because corporations don't want the end users to benifit.

So if you're thinking of signing up with a clubdrop, backorder, or sedo/afternic type service unless the domain you want is not wanted by more than 1-2 people I'd save your money you won't get it. I belong to all the above, have for ages, and I've never got one damn domain from any of them. There's still hope though, because the very few people who actually put real contact info on their domain registrations are often super pleased to get rid of a domain you like for a few hundred dollars. But, like I said, with so many registrars just keeping domains for ad money and what not it's unlikely you'll find any domains of interest not magically under whois privacy.

Come on people, it's not hard to enter 000-000-0000 in to the phone number or my@nospam-ty.email.com to fool the bots. Why pay for domain privacy unless you're hiding something? My thoughts exactly.

So in the end, any and every good domain pretty much is unobtainable, regardless of if and when it expires. I tried arguing with eNom about a domain they have that expired 1 1/2 years ago yet they retain control of. I got the run around and emailed their legal team like the phone guy told me too. I even offered them $2,000 for the domain which has no alexa info, PageRank, and has not even had a website on the domain(not even ads) for 2 years. Nothing. So I did what any fed up person would do. I began trying to register, to no avail damnit, the old yahoo email the guy who registered the domain 4 years ago used but of course Yahoo doesn't seem to drop the email address usernames even though they disable email directed to it. Damn my luck.

ICANN, if you ever read this, please understand you guys are a joke and I hope someday someone with enough money sues your asses.