Domain name registered on GoDaddy after I looked it up? www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/2er8c4Private View Fast forward a week and I actually go to purchase the domain through a hosting service, and the domain isn't available. I do a little WHOIS research and find out the domain is now registered on GoDaddy with an expiration date of "2015-08-21 15:35:20". This almost exactly 24 hours after I looked up the domain name. This seems a bit fishy to me.
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