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? >