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I don't know much about the business of domain names, so this may be a dumb question, but... if this service got popular, could you use some of the common (and/or recent) search terms to inform speculative domain purchases? If so, are you concerned that would make your target audience less likely to want to use a 3rd party service like this (b/c they don't want their potential domains snatched up)?

Of course I could do that. As a web app developer, I could also sell details about who my users are, what their passwords are (if I didn't salt+hash them), what actions they've taken on my sites, etc. Both would ruin my businesses and be highly unethical, which is why I would never do either.

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