HugeDomains is a cyber squatting website that falsely advertises through other websites to trick you into thinking that you are buying your available domain; however, once you type it in, along with your email address, they purchase your domain and mark up the price into the thousands. On average a domain costs around $10 a year. They purchase your domain that you entered for about $10 and market it to any possible buyers for thousands of dollars. This is completely illegal and goes against the United States Federal Law Anticybersquatting Customer Protection Act. They have been sued serval times and have been charged for stealing domains and using it with "bad faith." How this website is still active online amazes me. I know that they have become more hidden to get away with their company because they now have multiple websites advertising "free domain" registry under random websites and then once you put your available domain they instantly buy it and it then becomes owned through their HugeDomain website! All I can say is beware! If you are going trying to get a domain spend the $10. You will get that name (if it's available) and will have it for a year. That is a completely reasonable price to have your own website. Make sure you go through a legit company and know that HugeDomains is a scam. No domain should cost in the thousands but be aware that any "free domain" registry is highly unlikely and is probably linked to some kind of scam. Also note that domains do have an expiration date and if HugeDomains or any other domain selling company has your desired name you do have the chance of buying that domain again once it is free. I really hope this helps people. Good luck and spread kindness. :) xoxo
I was considering to register 2 .coms at vimexx.be or neostrada.nl. The moment I entered them they were available on vimexx. Few minutes later I entered them at Neostrada.nl (part of versio.nl) to see the price there. It spinned and showed move. The vimexx system now wasn't showing 'move' but unavailable. Did versio or vimexx really snatch them as they were available? Pretty sick tactics.
HugeDomains.com is a company which finds website domains that other's have created, but may have fallen behind schedule due to extraordinary circumstances, and steals the person's domain right out from under them. In my case, I put in years of labor, money, blood, sweat, and tears to create a website for my hobby and possible life purpose to present female rappers on my website. I am the only owner of the website and I actually did not have many visitors to the website because I was in the process of revamping it. I started my business and website back in 2006 as a sacrifice of time and money to build my brand. After keeping up my website for years, I fell on hard times and couldn't renew my domain name as planned for a few months and then in comes this company, HugeDomains, they had the audacity to purchase my domain name. At the time, my website was still under construction and for Huge Domains to come and buy it and try to sell it back to me or anyone else is very unethical. My website wasn't worth much, however, they are now wanting to sell it for more than $1500. No one is going to pay for it and I certainly feel robbed of my property because I am not able to pay that amount to get my name back. This is poor business practices. They have no reason to hold my website other than to somewhat extort me to get my name back. I came up with the name, I have all of my copyright papers, and my business incorporation filing certificate from the Secretary of State where I registered the company, yet they want to play ridiculous games with property they have absolutely no use for. This is so unfair and extremely heartbreaking. I put my life into building the brand I CREATED by myself only to have some lazy company come and snatch it up and basically, put it on the shelf until some day in the far future, they hope to sell it to the highest bidder. This is very unethical and they really shouldn't do people like this. I would be glad to purchase my website name back but not for their astronomical price. They have absolutely no use for the website name other than to sell it to the highest, non-existing bidder. I am definitely interested in filing suit asap!!!
I created a nutrition/fitness website for my wife named heidilicious.com. This is her nickname and created the site before Heidi Klum released her book by the same name. We had the site for a couple of years and when I went to renew the domain name it wasn't available. When I went to the site to check it I was amazed to see it was for sell by HugeDomainscom.com for almost $3,000.00. We used that site to show the amazing transformation my wife has made with hard work and dedication to a healthy lifestyle. She used to blog on a variety of things to help inspire people trying to transform there bodies. She had many people that she would help with diets and workout plans. I read online the definition of cybersquatting and HugeDomains.com does the very definition of cybersquatting. The laws are set so if you invest your time in a website you start at a very reasonable amount of money it can be stolen from you and then sold back to you for an outrageous amount. The closest example I could make would be someone stealing your car then you see you car and ask about it. They don't deny they stole your car but if you want it back you have to pay them double or triple what you owed on it. To make things worse if you called the cops they would tell you if you want your car back they you'd have to take them to court for a fee that is a couple hundred dollars less than what the thieves are demanding you to pay. Not that anything will ever be done about things like this but just wanted people to know if you have a domain name make try to register it for lifetime if possible or extend it early because if you are misinformed like I was and wait until it expires to renew it there is a huge chance that a cybersquatting terrorist like HugeDomains.com will take your site and all the hours of information and creative expression you have put into it will be lost and the site will be held for a large ransom. Pathetic but there are always going to be bullies with money that find loopholes to take advantage of others.
There are several reports on this site and others. I am afraid that my words will appear a nearly exact copy for what has already been written. However, I will relay my own personal interactions with Huge Domains. I originally created a .com domain name through Go Daddy almost ten years ago. I have run a business under that name locally and online, selling goods and services. Through years of medical issues and hospitalizations, I lost the domain listing. This year, I decided to make an official reboot and have a go at my business creation with all the LLC, Trademark, Copyight bells and whistles.
It gets expensive and confusing. I contacted the current holder of the domain and made an agreement to have the domain transferred back to me! Neither of us understood much but we relied on information that we were given during several phone calls and emails with representatives of Go Daddy about how the transfer process should work. The then current holder of my domain followed through within a week. Three weeks after that the domain expired but the transfer did not show as completed. I called. We tried again. And again. Go Daddy has no record of what took place for a month in their computer system...I was told to purchase a back order for $60. I was told to pay the current holders fees to process selling the site to me for $90. I was told many contradictory statements. But Go Daddy did manage to process a fee for me to join in on a private auction of the domain that I found out about by accident. And when I was out bid without a bidding battle, they processed a $90+ fee for me to retry another transfer. But guess what? Go Daddy had purchased the domain during that private auction and resold it to someone else while they were "helping" me with the transfer.
A representative initially told me that Go Daddy would buy that domain back on my behalf since I had a pending transaction with them for it. That was until they saw the resell price from HugeDomains....$2095. I explained this to Huge Domains. I was given a discount initially of 15%. Beyond feeling the burn of all the errors and miscommunications that had led me there I also knew that price was way beyond my means. I researched and offered a price above simillary negotiated deals that they had made in the past. Huge Domains' response was to increase the buy price, limit my decision making time, and access to the decision makers. Seems that both bosses have decided to have meetings and vacations at the same time....whenever I called.
Maybe what has happened has all been legal, a matter of confused communications. Maybe not. I can say that it is a nasty feeling to have your own creation be batted around for profit in a monetary realm beyond your means, to have a strong gut feeling that your own ignorance of technology is being taken advantage of....essentially that you are being made the victim of a shell game con. FAIR and HONEST businesses run trade by a truth, whole truth and nothing but policy. There's plenty of money to be made without extortionist fees. How unfortunate that some businesses are allowed to prosper from and hide behind rules and laws that are not made clear or balanced. I feel this has happened to me and see similarities in the other postings of complaint.
For now....I have been given the option to wait. Go Daddy has stated that they will look into any confusion their workers could have contributed to the transfer process but that there workers are "well trained." I won't mention the derogatory statements the supervisor made regarding my intelligence. Huge Domains co-founders are set to return in 5-10 business days. My requests have been put "in que for review." They want to look over the legal implications before countering my counter offer of their counter offers. I think I will keep busy searching and reporting ways to prevent and correct the practices that have led to my dealings with Go Daddy and Huge Domains. Who knows? This could be my first blog article on the .net site by the same name that I created and purchased for $12.
This is a complaint that is related to an existing complaint about Rajat Khanna, the rogue owner of ucvhost.com who deleted all subscriber files on his server and disappeared into thin air with thousands of dollars belonging to his customers, my company VoxHunt.com inclusive. The loss of business, contacts etc are a discussion for another forum. All attempts to recover my domain name failed untill recently when we noticed that Hugedomains.com has mysteriously bought the domain and put it up for $2,225 auction.
Hugedomains.com at first claimed ignorance about the stolen domain but later asserted that they had o idea it was stole. Instead of giving back a stolen domain, hugedomains.com showed some 'understanding' by reducing the price on the domain to $450.
There is a need to investigate the domains that hugedomains are selling as some could be stolen(Buyers bewre!!!). If domains from ucvhost.com can be traced to hugedomains.com, then there is an obvious racketeering going on.
We intend to get our domain, voxhunt.com back without paying criminal profit ins.com, however this criminal episode should be invetigated to protect potential victims in the future.
Read them in PACER - they try to dodge the law by not contacting the trademark holders
My customer has a trademarked word hugedomains.com has registered. They appear to be in colusion with godaddy on trying to maximize each firms profits via the auction process.
When I got married, I wanted to claim the domain name that matched my new name. Unfortunately, it was already taken. I waited a couple years, and noticed this person had stopped using the domain name, but still held the domain. I reached out to the owner and negotiated the release of the domain, since it was no longer in use. Unfortunately, they weren't technically savvy enough to figure out how to transfer the domain name to me, so this person released the domain instead, and I monitored the domain for when it would become available again.
Unfortunately, the day it was set to become available, I was traveling in Europe. I checked first thing in the morning -- still not available. Checked a couple hours -- still not available. I took a quick flight, and when I was next able to check a few hours later, HugeDomains had already snatched it up.
I reached out to them when I returned to the US, explained the situation, and asked them to sell me the domain at a reasonable price. I would have been able to purchase the domain from GoDaddy for $15 a year. A couple days later, they replied with this:
Hi (name deleted),
Thank you for submitting your offer of $15 on (domain name deleted). Our current asking price for the domain is $1,495 and the best and lowest price we are able to accept is $1,395.
We have updated this price online and this special discount will only be valid for 3 days. Simply navigate to this domain name or search for this domain on HugeDomains.com and complete the purchase using the shopping cart.
(URL provided deleted)
Upon successful purchase, we will send you a username and password giving you full control and access to this domain name. This is a one-time payment and you will have full control and ownership of this domain name.
Jeff
HugeDomains.com
2635 Walnut Street
Denver, CO 80205
Phone: 1-303-893-0552
Fax: 1-303-893-0507
This was my reply:
Hi Jeff,
With all due respect, that price is unreasonable. This isn't a huge brand name -- this is my personal name, and I'm not a celebrity. If I hadn't been traveling that particular day it became available I would have gotten it for $15 a year from GoDaddy.
Please get back to me with a more reasonable price. My absolute maximum would be $300.
This was their reply:
Hello (name deleted),
Jeff asked me to follow-up with your. Thank you for your counter offer of $300, however we will be holding firm at the $1395 price.
Thank you,
S. Patrick
HugeDomains Customer Support
I investigated, and found another ripoff report that corroborated that they are in direct violation of the a law that was passed in 1999...the federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. It states "The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), is an American law enacted in 1999 and that established a cause of action for registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name confusingly similar to, or dilutive of, a trademark or personal name. The law was designed to thwart “cybersquatters” who register Internet domain names containing trademarks with no intention of creating a legitimate web site, but instead plan to sell the domain name to the trademark owner or a third party."
ACPA covers "registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price."
In order to file a complaint with the ICANN, you have to agree to mediation that starts at $1500, which is even more than what HugeDomains is asking for, which is crazy. How is this legal? How is a company not this not shut down?
After 5 years I terminated the contract according to its terms. I had my bank block their abililty to charge my account through ACH. They used another company to steal $599.05 from my account.
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HugeDomains is a SCAM!!! BEWARE!!!
HugeDomains is a cyber squatting website that falsely advertises through other websites to trick you into thinking that you are buying your available domain; however, once you type it in, along with your email address, they purchase your domain and mark up the price into the thousands. On average a domain costs around $10 a year. They purchase your domain that you entered for about $10 and market it to any possible buyers for thousands of dollars. This is completely illegal and goes against the United States Federal Law Anticybersquatting Customer Protection Act. They have been sued serval times and have been charged for stealing domains and using it with "bad faith." How this website is still active online amazes me. I know that they have become more hidden to get away with their company because they now have multiple websites advertising "free domain" registry under random websites and then once you put your available domain they instantly buy it and it then becomes owned through their HugeDomain website! All I can say is beware! If you are going trying to get a domain spend the $10. You will get that name (if it's available) and will have it for a year. That is a completely reasonable price to have your own website. Make sure you go through a legit company and know that HugeDomains is a scam. No domain should cost in the thousands but be aware that any "free domain" registry is highly unlikely and is probably linked to some kind of scam. Also note that domains do have an expiration date and if HugeDomains or any other domain selling company has your desired name you do have the chance of buying that domain again once it is free. I really hope this helps people. Good luck and spread kindness. :) xoxo
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I was considering to register 2 .coms at vimexx.be or neostrada.nl. The moment I entered them they were available on vimexx. Few minutes later I entered them at Neostrada.nl (part of versio.nl) to see the price there. It spinned and showed move. The vimexx system now wasn't showing 'move' but unavailable. Did versio or vimexx really snatch them as they were available? Pretty sick tactics.
HugeDomains.com is a company which finds website domains that other's have created, but may have fallen behind schedule due to extraordinary circumstances, and steals the person's domain right out from under them. In my case, I put in years of labor, money, blood, sweat, and tears to create a website for my hobby and possible life purpose to present female rappers on my website. I am the only owner of the website and I actually did not have many visitors to the website because I was in the process of revamping it. I started my business and website back in 2006 as a sacrifice of time and money to build my brand. After keeping up my website for years, I fell on hard times and couldn't renew my domain name as planned for a few months and then in comes this company, HugeDomains, they had the audacity to purchase my domain name. At the time, my website was still under construction and for Huge Domains to come and buy it and try to sell it back to me or anyone else is very unethical. My website wasn't worth much, however, they are now wanting to sell it for more than $1500. No one is going to pay for it and I certainly feel robbed of my property because I am not able to pay that amount to get my name back. This is poor business practices. They have no reason to hold my website other than to somewhat extort me to get my name back. I came up with the name, I have all of my copyright papers, and my business incorporation filing certificate from the Secretary of State where I registered the company, yet they want to play ridiculous games with property they have absolutely no use for. This is so unfair and extremely heartbreaking. I put my life into building the brand I CREATED by myself only to have some lazy company come and snatch it up and basically, put it on the shelf until some day in the far future, they hope to sell it to the highest bidder. This is very unethical and they really shouldn't do people like this. I would be glad to purchase my website name back but not for their astronomical price. They have absolutely no use for the website name other than to sell it to the highest, non-existing bidder. I am definitely interested in filing suit asap!!!
I created a nutrition/fitness website for my wife named heidilicious.com. This is her nickname and created the site before Heidi Klum released her book by the same name. We had the site for a couple of years and when I went to renew the domain name it wasn't available. When I went to the site to check it I was amazed to see it was for sell by HugeDomainscom.com for almost $3,000.00. We used that site to show the amazing transformation my wife has made with hard work and dedication to a healthy lifestyle. She used to blog on a variety of things to help inspire people trying to transform there bodies. She had many people that she would help with diets and workout plans. I read online the definition of cybersquatting and HugeDomains.com does the very definition of cybersquatting. The laws are set so if you invest your time in a website you start at a very reasonable amount of money it can be stolen from you and then sold back to you for an outrageous amount. The closest example I could make would be someone stealing your car then you see you car and ask about it. They don't deny they stole your car but if you want it back you have to pay them double or triple what you owed on it. To make things worse if you called the cops they would tell you if you want your car back they you'd have to take them to court for a fee that is a couple hundred dollars less than what the thieves are demanding you to pay. Not that anything will ever be done about things like this but just wanted people to know if you have a domain name make try to register it for lifetime if possible or extend it early because if you are misinformed like I was and wait until it expires to renew it there is a huge chance that a cybersquatting terrorist like HugeDomains.com will take your site and all the hours of information and creative expression you have put into it will be lost and the site will be held for a large ransom. Pathetic but there are always going to be bullies with money that find loopholes to take advantage of others.
There are several reports on this site and others. I am afraid that my words will appear a nearly exact copy for what has already been written. However, I will relay my own personal interactions with Huge Domains. I originally created a .com domain name through Go Daddy almost ten years ago. I have run a business under that name locally and online, selling goods and services. Through years of medical issues and hospitalizations, I lost the domain listing. This year, I decided to make an official reboot and have a go at my business creation with all the LLC, Trademark, Copyight bells and whistles.
It gets expensive and confusing. I contacted the current holder of the domain and made an agreement to have the domain transferred back to me! Neither of us understood much but we relied on information that we were given during several phone calls and emails with representatives of Go Daddy about how the transfer process should work. The then current holder of my domain followed through within a week. Three weeks after that the domain expired but the transfer did not show as completed. I called. We tried again. And again. Go Daddy has no record of what took place for a month in their computer system...I was told to purchase a back order for $60. I was told to pay the current holders fees to process selling the site to me for $90. I was told many contradictory statements. But Go Daddy did manage to process a fee for me to join in on a private auction of the domain that I found out about by accident. And when I was out bid without a bidding battle, they processed a $90+ fee for me to retry another transfer. But guess what? Go Daddy had purchased the domain during that private auction and resold it to someone else while they were "helping" me with the transfer.
A representative initially told me that Go Daddy would buy that domain back on my behalf since I had a pending transaction with them for it. That was until they saw the resell price from HugeDomains....$2095. I explained this to Huge Domains. I was given a discount initially of 15%. Beyond feeling the burn of all the errors and miscommunications that had led me there I also knew that price was way beyond my means. I researched and offered a price above simillary negotiated deals that they had made in the past. Huge Domains' response was to increase the buy price, limit my decision making time, and access to the decision makers. Seems that both bosses have decided to have meetings and vacations at the same time....whenever I called.
Maybe what has happened has all been legal, a matter of confused communications. Maybe not. I can say that it is a nasty feeling to have your own creation be batted around for profit in a monetary realm beyond your means, to have a strong gut feeling that your own ignorance of technology is being taken advantage of....essentially that you are being made the victim of a shell game con. FAIR and HONEST businesses run trade by a truth, whole truth and nothing but policy. There's plenty of money to be made without extortionist fees. How unfortunate that some businesses are allowed to prosper from and hide behind rules and laws that are not made clear or balanced. I feel this has happened to me and see similarities in the other postings of complaint.
For now....I have been given the option to wait. Go Daddy has stated that they will look into any confusion their workers could have contributed to the transfer process but that there workers are "well trained." I won't mention the derogatory statements the supervisor made regarding my intelligence. Huge Domains co-founders are set to return in 5-10 business days. My requests have been put "in que for review." They want to look over the legal implications before countering my counter offer of their counter offers. I think I will keep busy searching and reporting ways to prevent and correct the practices that have led to my dealings with Go Daddy and Huge Domains. Who knows? This could be my first blog article on the .net site by the same name that I created and purchased for $12.
SCAM!!!
SCAM!!!
This is a complaint that is related to an existing complaint about Rajat Khanna, the rogue owner of ucvhost.com who deleted all subscriber files on his server and disappeared into thin air with thousands of dollars belonging to his customers, my company VoxHunt.com inclusive. The loss of business, contacts etc are a discussion for another forum. All attempts to recover my domain name failed untill recently when we noticed that Hugedomains.com has mysteriously bought the domain and put it up for $2,225 auction.
Hugedomains.com at first claimed ignorance about the stolen domain but later asserted that they had o idea it was stole. Instead of giving back a stolen domain, hugedomains.com showed some 'understanding' by reducing the price on the domain to $450.
There is a need to investigate the domains that hugedomains are selling as some could be stolen(Buyers bewre!!!). If domains from ucvhost.com can be traced to hugedomains.com, then there is an obvious racketeering going on.
We intend to get our domain, voxhunt.com back without paying criminal profit ins.com, however this criminal episode should be invetigated to protect potential victims in the future.
Read them in PACER - they try to dodge the law by not contacting the trademark holders
My customer has a trademarked word hugedomains.com has registered. They appear to be in colusion with godaddy on trying to maximize each firms profits via the auction process.
When I got married, I wanted to claim the domain name that matched my new name. Unfortunately, it was already taken. I waited a couple years, and noticed this person had stopped using the domain name, but still held the domain. I reached out to the owner and negotiated the release of the domain, since it was no longer in use. Unfortunately, they weren't technically savvy enough to figure out how to transfer the domain name to me, so this person released the domain instead, and I monitored the domain for when it would become available again.
Unfortunately, the day it was set to become available, I was traveling in Europe. I checked first thing in the morning -- still not available. Checked a couple hours -- still not available. I took a quick flight, and when I was next able to check a few hours later, HugeDomains had already snatched it up.
I reached out to them when I returned to the US, explained the situation, and asked them to sell me the domain at a reasonable price. I would have been able to purchase the domain from GoDaddy for $15 a year. A couple days later, they replied with this:
Hi (name deleted),
Thank you for submitting your offer of $15 on (domain name deleted). Our current asking price for the domain is $1,495 and the best and lowest price we are able to accept is $1,395.
We have updated this price online and this special discount will only be valid for 3 days. Simply navigate to this domain name or search for this domain on HugeDomains.com and complete the purchase using the shopping cart.
(URL provided deleted)
Upon successful purchase, we will send you a username and password giving you full control and access to this domain name. This is a one-time payment and you will have full control and ownership of this domain name.
Jeff
HugeDomains.com
2635 Walnut Street
Denver, CO 80205
Phone: 1-303-893-0552
Fax: 1-303-893-0507
This was my reply:
Hi Jeff,
With all due respect, that price is unreasonable. This isn't a huge brand name -- this is my personal name, and I'm not a celebrity. If I hadn't been traveling that particular day it became available I would have gotten it for $15 a year from GoDaddy.
Please get back to me with a more reasonable price. My absolute maximum would be $300.
This was their reply:
Hello (name deleted),
Jeff asked me to follow-up with your. Thank you for your counter offer of $300, however we will be holding firm at the $1395 price.
Thank you,
S. Patrick
HugeDomains Customer Support
I investigated, and found another ripoff report that corroborated that they are in direct violation of the a law that was passed in 1999...the federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. It states "The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), is an American law enacted in 1999 and that established a cause of action for registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name confusingly similar to, or dilutive of, a trademark or personal name. The law was designed to thwart “cybersquatters” who register Internet domain names containing trademarks with no intention of creating a legitimate web site, but instead plan to sell the domain name to the trademark owner or a third party."
ACPA covers "registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price."
In order to file a complaint with the ICANN, you have to agree to mediation that starts at $1500, which is even more than what HugeDomains is asking for, which is crazy. How is this legal? How is a company not this not shut down?
After 5 years I terminated the contract according to its terms. I had my bank block their abililty to charge my account through ACH. They used another company to steal $599.05 from my account.