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?