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by mystcb 1541 days ago
Hopefully some additional links too, to show how it evolved from Domain Name Front Running[0]. Moved into Domain tasting (which things like Domain Kitting is related to) [1].

There are posts all the way back to 2011[2] and probably further showing GoDaddy doing this for some time, and even I spotted it when using Network Solutions back in the day [3].

ICANN introduced charges (from the Wiki article) to try and reduce the Domain Tasting element, so I a guessing it is better now), but I (my personal opinion) think that it is still out there, just not as obvious as it once was!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22005265