Originally Posted by herewego I have seen several people at other forums complaining that different registrars will basically steal domain names out from under you if you search and don't buy at that moment. Have you found that to be true and if so, which registrars should I avoid?

Yep... this happend to me, also.. I was looking for a xxxxx.net domain. I actually found one that wasn't registered so I wanted to buy it. I've added some money to my paypal account, and.. when I returned to the registrar to buy the domain.. it was taken . I even tried to whois on that domain.. but all the data was private.

Registrar: name.com

I don't know if they do this with every searched domain.. but with the 5char-ones.. i'm pretty sure they do.