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I could have sworn this happened to me. I looked up my own name (.com) one day, and it was available. I checked back a week or so later, and it was taken.

I monitored the domain for a year and saw no activity. At the end of a year it became available, and I snagged it at a base price. Seemed like too much of a coincidence. I don't have that common of a name. I can't prove anything though.



Happened to me as well. I can't remember if it was Godaddy or some other web lookup, but now I only ever use CLI tools to do domain lookups.




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