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by emddudley 1929 days ago
I just tried to buy wow.quest 2 minutes ago and it feels like the same thing just happened to me. Between me searching and checking out it got registered:

  Registrar URL: https://namecheap.com
  Updated Date: 2021-03-03T14:30:25.0Z
  Creation Date: 2021-03-03T14:30:20.0Z
  Registry Expiry Date: 2022-03-03T23:59:59.0Z
Namecheap gave me a "Oops, looks like the domain was taken by someone else, so we removed the domain from your cart."
3 comments

Hmm, could it be a system glitch when Namecheap tries to register the domain for you during checkout? This seems less likely to be a coincidence.
So by your account, someone at NS tails the search log and hits "buy" when they see something nice like wow.quest?
Didn't say that. It's not clear to me what happened, could be a number of things. Probably coincidence.

Just felt like I had the same experience as the person on Reddit. Went to buy an unregistered domain, and it got registered by someone else immediately after I searched for it.

The registrar is not the registrant, this just means someone bought it on namecheap.