Years ago, it used to happen at 123, even in the early hours, you do a search, add to your basket so as to keep track, and when deleting from your basked and regging the domains, when going back and trying to reg the others you had not initially, they had been regged regularly, and within minutes sometimes, and yes, like you have experienced, frozen etc and then gone, by someone in the north east no less
Just a few weeks back, i was going to reg emerald cut, regged a few others and went back to it a day later, bingo it had been regged. By someone in Nottingham, no big companies based there are there
Week later I had some domain credits at fasthosts, but had used another whois, and searched for tablediamonds.com, again, regged some others, and went back for that one, seems 1and1 internet now have it parked at sedo.
A hosting affiliate I used years ago, let you see the domain searches, so no surprise the big guys have em, would like to know if the data is for sale etc?
Still, i shoud have taken the advice I usually stick to, and searched direct.
And after all, its their business, so although not that happy, its up to them, and like any business like that, see you come the revolution lol
