I can't help but to believe that this is highly illegal. You look up a 
domain and the registrars steal your domain name.

On 3/31/2011 6:37 PM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
> 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?
>