Observed arrival · 2026-11-01

FrontRunning’s public test of domain-search claims

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An open-data experiment tests whether randomly generated domain names are registered after being searched at major registrars.

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For: People concerned about domain-search privacy
Worth noticing: The 35-name cohort splits 30 searches across three registrars and five never-searched controls; none has registered so far.

Field notes

The experiment assigns five randomly generated names to each of six search conditions—search-only and search-plus-cart at Namecheap, GoDaddy, and IONOS—and keeps five names as a never-searched baseline. The page says it checks public RDAP records daily and watches each name for 90 days; results are also offered as CSV. Its first visible cohort has no registrations in any group, so it has not yet produced evidence of a difference.

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