[y-c-o-m-b]

I see this kind of stuff happening all the time; some of them being high-profile sites too (e.g. "Keep America Great" got taken from Trump). Is there some website that monitors domain expiration and sends out alerts or is this mostly lone-actors? I'm always surprised by how quickly they move in on the domain

[folli]

It's called Domain drop catching or Domain sniping. There are tools available that do just that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_drop_catching

[wrs]

There are many such services, which will not only alert you but automatically try to buy the domain for you. Search for “domain backorders”.

[y-c-o-m-b]

Oh wow even GoDaddy provides the service. Interesting. Thanks!

[sixothree]

I would assume that would just give them more information for their domain broker services to raise the price of the domain.

[jfrunyon]

Sure, but so does doing a whois or an NS check. Plenty of registrars and registries are known to have abused such data in the past.

[lostlogin]

Keeping it classy as always.

[eli]

yeah but all the good ones are automatically reregistered way faster than you could click the Buy button.