I believe tasting was mostly done by registrars peeking in on their own 
search engine. I could be wrong.

On 3/31/2011 11:23 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> It looks like it has a name. There appears to be some mechanism where 
> if I look up a non-existent domain that lookup is somehow exposed to 
> people who then register the domain if I don't register it immediately.
>
> The town of Gilroy is starting a farmers market. A few weeks ago I 
> looked up GilroyFarmersMarket.com and it was available. I come back 
> two weeks later and it's taken.
>
> Who is tracking this? How do third parties know that I looked up that 
> domain?