> It might not be for sale at any price Sure, the domain could be unavailable because someone else wanted it. However with front running, the registrar does no

> It might not be for sale at any price Sure, the domain could be unavailable because someone else wanted it. However with front running, the registrar does not want the domain in isolation. They want to domain purely because you are likely to want it based on the fact that you searched for it. The primary difference is using non-public data (your search) to make the decision to buy (which is part of the front running definition). > Why does it matter If the law was perfect at all times, it would never change. It is not a tautology because there are things that WOULDN’T be illegal even if the market was regulated as heavily as other ones. Pointing out that this is behaviour that is penalised in other situations is not useless. Precedent is the fundamental basis of many legal arguments. The rest of your comment is about the truthfulness of the OP. For the argument I was making, it doesn’t matter. I was disagreeing with your original comment (which was that this general behaviour is not wrong). The morality of the general behaviour and whether Namecheap actually does it are two completely separate points.