Domain Name Front Running

[Nicolas Adam]

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?
>>