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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by lstodd on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:08AM (#28755977)
> Surely this is being done?

Personally saw this kind of thing as early as 2001.

Never search for free domains on the registar site unless you are going to register it immediately. Even whois queries can trigger this kind of thing, although that mostly happens on obscure gtld/cctld registries which have a single registrar for the whole tld.

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by exikyut on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:09PM (#28764145)
I can sadly attest to this behavior as recently as a couple years ago :(

I searched for a domain that I couldn't immediately grab (one of more expensive kind) using a random free whois site... and when I revisited the domain several weeks later it was gone :'(

Emailed the site's new owner D: but fairly predictably got no reply.

Lesson learned, and thankfully on a domain that wasn't the absolute end of the world.

I now exclusively do all my queries via the WHOIS protocol directly. Welp.

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