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by lucb1e 443 days ago
I heard this rumor and to this day don't use purchase pages to search for domains; I query the whois database directly. If the TLD owner is in cahoots with scalpers, they'd see the search query come in no matter what I use, so that seems like the best option and it's super easy from a unix commandline as well (a whois tool is default installed or a click away in most distributions)