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Someone who claims to work at NC responded down that thread saying "Hi - I'll look into this further as I work with Namecheap, but we don't have a history of do

Someone who claims to work at NC responded down that thread saying "Hi - I'll look into this further as I work with Namecheap, but we don't have a history of doing this as you state." https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lwgrkz/namecheap_just_snaked_another_domain_off_me/gphflie/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lwgrkz/namecheap_ju... Based on the account history, it does look like they work there. https://www.reddit.com/user/tamar https://www.reddit.com/user/tamar

Izkata 6y ago
That reddit link has since been updated with an explanation (basically that it really is just a coincidence): > Wanted to provide an update on this. As you may or may not know, .quest launched this week, and this is a 3 letter domain on top of that, hence the demand. The registrant of this domain is on our platform but is only a customer who historically has purchased domains in a similar vein. As I said earlier, our platform has never been known to register domains after lookup, nor do we share this data with any third parties. > We have confirmed that the registrant has no affiliation whatsoever with our staff or any of our partners. > Further, to discuss the logs, the registrant added it to their cart immediately after searching for it, at 2021-03-03 00:18:13.566638 UTC. The OP searched for it but never added it to his cart, looking for it literally a minute before the person who actually registered it checked out (at 2021-03-03 00:17:38.875854 UTC). > This was merely a coincidence, as we do process hundreds of thousands of domain searches per day.