Good question. Anyone? I believe that was one of the ways domain tasting 
was being performed (and probably still is, although there is no grace 
period anymore).

Nicolas

On 3/31/2011 1:51 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Sometimes I get on OpenSRS (Tucows) and look up a domain name to find 
> it available. A few days later someone registers the domain name. I 
> don't think it's a coincidence. Are these queries public?