Good for you! I enjoyed reading about your persistence and eventual triumph, knowing how shady the business of domain squatting is. > Generally, these auctions

Good for you! I enjoyed reading about your persistence and eventual triumph, knowing how shady the business of domain squatting is. > Generally, these auctions will drive up the price by bidding on their own domains to get you to pay more. This practice feels like a form of fraud, but I guess it's not against any law..? > I had also initially setup the script to auto-purchase the domain, but that failed due to Namecheap not recognizing the domain availability in time. Interesting to hear this, as I was curious about using their API to automate domain purchasing as part of a larger web service. I imagine they cache results and refresh periodically, which is good enough for most purposes.