Originally Posted by brizzad

The Truth:

Registrars usually are given a 5 day grace period on domains. Whenever someone searches for domain availability, but doesnt add them to the website's shopping cart, the registrar(the bad ones) will register the domain to see if its getting any typeins or hits from somewhere. If it is, they keep it, if it isnt, then they drop it within that 5 days at no charge to them.