Domain Name Front Running

[Marc Perkel]

What concerns me is how is it that other people have access to my whois
queries?

On 3/31/2011 6:48 PM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
> 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?
>>>
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