Just looked about and found these: "Does GoDaddy register domains you search?" (2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790 https://news.ycombinator.com

Just looked about and found these: "Does GoDaddy register domains you search?" (2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790 Within this, was the comment that reminded me which company it was I was talking about (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327152) - Network Solutions used to do this - and there is a Wiki link in there which gives the process a name! TIL! :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running