J, little bro says that campers and ISP's are both guilty of this crap. Campers will read lists of domain names about to expire and wait on them to do so.

ISP's that have that search functions that allows you to see if a domain is taken have been proven to use this very same function to automatically register untaken, searched for, domain names under the presumption you will want to buy it. The FBI is looking at that one real hard under their sleazy practices laws.

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