I like that you are selling a frontend for the OS URI handler for 10$. And then there is someone scamming you out of your revenue. A tech savvy standup comedian should be able to get a bit out of this :-)
My app makes about 1-2k a month. My guess that those free with IAP apps can make easily the same amount. That will be a very good salary for someone, for example, in India.
And scamming with a little profit makes it easier to stay away from some of the eyes.
But if we check the domain history of aduro.com, it was not available to buy in 2004. It was owned until 06/2004 by Yahoo and then it looks like it went through 3 holding companies until it ended up with another hosting company.
So, you never bid enough on the domain even though godaddy showed it to you as purchasable?
And if it turns out to be true, that godaddy or affiliates just auto-buy domains fitting certain criteria, it should be somewhat easy to exploit that and screw them (or the affiliate)?
I do have a personal godaddy account, since that was the easiest way for me to enter the .co domain auction, so I sometimes look for domains there and buy them on my company registrars website (their interface for finding free domain names sucks...). I've not had the issue with a domain I searched for not being available to buy. And while I've never had that issue with godaddy itself, companies under the Host Europe umbrella have done this to me (meaning search for a domain in a e.g. a Host Europe account, realize I used the wrong account, sign into the partners Domain Factory account and the domain is unavailable).
Can you link to the form you are talking about? If I fill out the "find my domain" part I have to create an account before I can fill out any contact details.
