matt900 - 6:17 pm on Aug 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

I've been backordering quite a few dropping names recently and I've initially lost several, only to have them successfully captured about 5 days later. I'm assuming that someone is tasting the name and then dropping it when they see that there is no traffic. Every one that I lost was to someone with a name like "Example Domains"...not to a person or non-domain related company.

I was wondering if by monitoring the domain and checking the whois record to see if it is dropping again, will I be tipping off the person that someone is interested in the name, causing them to keep the name? I never actually type the URL into my browser and visit the site, but only check the whois data through another site.