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GoDaddy was once notorious for this. Don’t know if they still are.

GoDaddy to me is synonym for actively sabotaging their customer's interests.

It would be fun to spam domain searches to cause them to register a bunch of shitty domains they can’t sell.

That doesn’t work because they don’t pay anything. They get to “taste” ownership of the domain for free.

Ok, at least there must be limits, so it would act as a diluter and possibly make it uneconomic.

Oh yeah, and you don't need to search it many times. Do the window shopping a couple times and "someone" will get the domain right away.

I always search for my desired domain with the .wtf TLD and then browse to see if .media/.io/.dev is available.

This is an excellent anti-pattern strategy to adopt when searching for a new but premium domain.

No sense tripping up all the gTLD and registars’ mousetraps of shady jacked-up pricing scheme.