Not so long ago, it was made on a vast scale at the speed of light, so to speak, and freee for 5 days, hence the name: domain tasting. Highly crooked and the symptom of a broken market. On 3/31/2011 9:43 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: > 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? >>