GoDaddy Sells Your Searches to Squatters? Part 1
Recently, I had a neat idea for a website. I thought about what domain I could use. Being naive, I decided to do some searches on GoDaddy for some potential candidates. On June 6th, I am warming up to inmybelly.com, which was available. Two weeks pass, and I am ready to make the buy when I find out that it has been registered! Similar events have been reported by others before.
Coincidence? Perhaps. So I am going to do an experiment. I am going to search for domain names that could have some value to a squatter and see if they are taken. The domains I ran searches on GoDaddy for are for the time being, confidential to ensure readers don’t mess with my results. 
I will run them through the search a second time in a week. Then, I will update this blog one additional week later with my results.
For the time being, I want to suggest to readers to always use the “whois” command from your Linux command line.