Comment by sam1r

Curious about this as well. When you query the servers of the registry [gandi, namecheap, godaddy] for a particular domain example.com, doesn't it update the one of the datetime fields for last queried?

Then again, the squatter would have to know what to search. Isn't it against rules for domain registrars to publish their recent query history [private or public]?

Any more light on this subject would be greatly appreciated!