Just incase you were in doubt that Network Solutions / VeriSign were scum after the wildcard .com incident their latest shady tactic is to register all domains queried.
If you go to Network Solutions (I'm not even giving them the benefit of a link) and search on a domain, you'll find within an hour it has been registered like this:
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This Domain is Available - Register it Now!
600,000 domain names are registered daily! Don't delay; there's no guarantee
that a domain name you see today will still be here tomorrow!
Register it Now at www.NetworkSolutions.com.
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Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC domainsupport@networksolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 09-Jan-2009.
Record created on 09-Jan-2008.
Database last updated on 9-Jan-2008 07:08:22 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.reserveddomainname.com 205.178.190.55
ns2.reserveddomainname.com 205.178.189.55
Of course, this means once someone has queried it on their site they pretty much have to register it through them. (As domain tasting companies will probably pick the domain up otherwise.)