Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
by cairoshikobon on Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:22PM
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afaik there is something in ICANN that allows them to do this completely for free for some period or super cheap, not paying the same price customers pay.
They're probably not buying every domain that's searched, but if you appear likely to buy the domain by having an existing account, only searching for a single domain that's based on an english word, and getting most of the way through the checkout flow, that might trick them into buying a garbage domain name.