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This isn't surprising. I knew a guy from Houston who allegedly had an inside source at Network Solutions back in the late 90s. The way their little scam worked allegedly was that every two and three letter domain name that existed would get registered to a front company and then resold for top dollar. When the grace period ended (something like 60 or 90 days) then the insider would re-register the domains for the front company again.
Then there was the time NetSol wanted to circumvent any mistyped URL request on the internet and, instead of presenting a DNS error, they would show a netsol page advertising themselves. They're always looking for ways to make a buck. You think they made coin when they were charged $100 for a fucking two year domain registration back in 1994? Hells yes they did.
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