To answer your eal question - yeah there are employees at registrars that spy on the domain requests - and do register them in hopes of reselling them to the person that wanted it
That said - (being a true domain name fetish addict) - please do post the name LOL - Id love to see if I could find you something better.
I tend to keep a little stock money at my favorite registrar so that if I see something I can buy it immediately - of course that just feeds my addiction even more - guess thats why Ive got over 500 domains that dont have sites on them
