Edit 2: I looked at the images and read the other comments and realized the poster had a fanciful theory about Namecheap using Godaddy as a proxy to steal the domain name he searched for the previous day. This discussion should probably be closed.
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There was an article not too long ago where someone else claimed this (it was with a .quest domain name) and someone from namecheap categorically denied it.
FWIW, I have also checked domains on namecheap and have not had them squatted.
I'm cynical enough however to believe they could start doing this.
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There was an article not too long ago where someone else claimed this (it was with a .quest domain name) and someone from namecheap categorically denied it.
FWIW, I have also checked domains on namecheap and have not had them squatted.
I'm cynical enough however to believe they could start doing this.
Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327939 for the earlier discussion
And here is a the (putative) response from namecheap on reddit at the time, linked in the HN discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lwgrkz/comment/gpjp...