Yea they'd abuse the 3 day grace period that was put in place to squat the domai...

simcop2387 on Jan 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How many .com domain names are unused?

Yea they'd abuse the 3 day grace period that was put in place to squat the domains that were searched. That let them temporarily lock up the domain and also announce to the world that there was interest in the domain, leading to more squatting.