Jay Westerdal wrote on Domain Tools blog here about how Network Solutions is stealing the domain name ideas with the aid of domain search tool at their website. If you go to their website and check the availability of a domain name, they know what you searched and hold that domain for 4 days or so with them, with a price tag of $34.99. Meaning you cannot buy it from anyone else for another 4 days or so.

If you try to book that domain with some other registrar, it shows that domain is with Network Solutions. After sometime it comes back into the pool of available domain names. But is not this a sort of black marketing. Networks solutions is clearly acting as ‘Front Runner’ and influencing the price of the domain names that are being searched at their website for availability, but not immediately booked. Besides that, they a opening the domain ideas to scammers who can book the domain after the initial hold period of 4 days.

I would have to think twice before I recommend anyone using their service.