After a whois check, a free domain lives for two minutes.

Many of us faced an unpleasant situation: you invent an original domain name for your project, check it with a registrar and make sure that the name is free. When you decide to register it the next day or in a couple of days, it suddenly turns out to be busy! Intuition tells you that you have been deceived. Someone intercepted your search query and registered your domain (or rather, just transferred it to you for free, taking it “on trial” - for details on domain tasting, see here ).

Recently, the situation has worsened many times. The time interval from the moment of checking the domain to the time of his theft was reduced to one and a half or two minutes .

Naturally, suspicions first of all fall on the registrar through whom you check the free domain. However, it is not he who is stealing that, but other companies. The registrars themselves have already discovered the problem. According to their assurances, information leakage occurs through the Network Solutions whois-service, where the request to check the domain is sent.
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via DailyDomainer