Comment by squeaky-clean
6 years ago
I've got no evidence except anecdptes, but I've heard claims that GoDaddy used to do this a lot. For this reason I've only searched a domain I was going to immediately buy, otherwise I'll do a whois lookup to see if it's registered.
Just looked about and found these:
"Does GoDaddy register domains you search?" (2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running