Originally Posted by rowan

NSI's response:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/81082_...front_running/

I wonder if registrars (or high end domainers with access to an API) are already doing proactive registrations - pick a keyword, get a script to munch on keyword data such as overture or wordtracker, spit out 500 variants, then register them all and see what happens.