Originally Posted by MakingItPay

and I search the availability of a domain I thought of. So it is available and I call one of my partners and ask him if he likes it and wants it. He says yes then calls me and says it's taken. Network Solutions registered it immediately after my search, then forced us to buy it for $35 bucks instead of getting it at GoDaddy for $8. I guess that's better than charging $100, but damn!

The only reason I searched it at Network Solutions was that the last domain I thought of I searched at whois.sc then it was snagged an hour after the search.
This seems like some crooked A** Bull%^& to me, but perhaps someone can share similar experiences with domain registrars? Lesson learned, don't search, just buy. If it ain't available I'll find out soon enough.