Sampaguita R.

I stumbled upon Hatchwise in late 2020 and submitted a lot of entries on that site just to test the waters. It's January 2021 as of this writing, and I have just discovered that my entry NovelFunds.com was stolen in Dec 2020, which means a scumbag (either the bogus contest holder or a member of Hatchwise team) registered the domain without me knowing and getting rewarded for it. What makes Hatchwise even more scammy is all of a sudden I couldn't submit any entry (no matter how many times I press enter) to the first and last biggest reward contest I was partaking in. Very strange and fishy! Anyhow, I'm going to update this review once I discover more stolen domain name ideas.

The site has a lot of bogus accounts winning bogus contests (contests administered by SH for domain parking purposes). The non-winning name entries are forever stored in their database. Sometimes, you and several others randomly win a pittance (like 5 bucks) after the "contest holder" decided not to pick a winner, but it must be their strategy to steal multiple domains for the prize of one domain (you'll never know unless you do some ICANN lookup). Regardless, SH gets to keep all your entries so that future legit contest holders are notified that your entry has already been submitted to a previous contest and that they are not likely going to pick an entry that didn't impress the previous "contest holders" so that you, the creative, are forced to come up with a new entry.

Squadhelp is hoarding domain names and stealing creative ideas from namers. My entry Pamberton.com in Nov 2020 was registered without me knowing and being rewarded for it. It could definitely be either the contest holder (Scandinavian or American citizen pretending to be from Scandinavia) or someone from Squadhelp admin that registered the domain. I've already known for years that the site puts up some bogus contests on a regular basis, but just because you're a rarely active namer doesn't mean you should be taken advantage of by lowering your percentile rank, delaying the approval to publish your comment in the forum, removing the private message system between the namer and CH, providing an inaccurate domain name availability checker and an incompetent/unresponsive chat support... apart from getting creatively and monetarily ripped off.

I keep a list of my entries (it's a long list), so it will take more time to go through all of them for domain registration checking.

Update:

Here are my other Oct-Dec 2020 Squadhelp entries that were DELIBERATELY stolen after my submission by registering the domain without awarding me the total prize:
Lactosense.com - stolen in Dec 2020
Eqonomiqs.com - stolen in Dec 2020
Countlounge.com - stolen in Jan 2021
Squiggie.com - stolen in Jan 2021

P.S.

To that stupid Manila-based chat support agent that has banned me from logging in to my account and posting about my stolen domains, enjoy while you're still earning from a longstanding fraudulent company. I'm trying to find a way to bring action to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) even though I live in Cebu, Philippines.