Nominet Domain Name Front Running (DNFR)

[Whois-SearchWhois-Search is verified member.]

Worth a read:

http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/26183_Domain_Name_Front_Running.pdf

http://www.circleid.com/posts/7112810_nominet_on_front_running/

 

[monaghanmonaghan is verified member.]

This is something I thought about a while back, it would be very easy to log all whois requests via the ordering system and then cherry pick good names that the customers haven't registered within a certain timeframe, but thought it is a bit un-ethical, so never looked further.

With the big registrars, they must have 1000's of unique queries a day, this would be a goldmine of information.