Ray solomon wrote:

> My question is how is it possible for a business such as Compana, Inc.
> able to monitor what domain names are being querried?
> And, Do you have to be a registrar to do that?
>
> You can read more and comment about it here too:
> http://ray-solomon.com/2006/06/10/dns-question/

That page gives me a 404 error.

My guess, assuming you checked availability of your domain name only on
Godaddy, is that Godaddy sells the queries made on their site to
Compana. Otherwise it's one hell of a coincidence. Next time, run your
whois query on a unix machine using the ordinary client program "whois"
or "fwhois" and save yourself some grief (and money). Not that Network
Solutions (or Verisign, whoever sits on top of the heap these days... I
lose track) is above such shenanigans (quite to the contrary!) but
they're not as hungry.