In Domain Editorial (BETA) » Another Alternate Root? I asked:

Will Unified Root’s Nameservers be storing any queries for currently non-existing domains? If so, what will be done with that data?

I received the following answer from their press contact a couple of days ago:

(some typos were corrected)

I have asked UnifiedRoot for response. They say: Root servers do not store any query history or data. Data collected on root servers are purely performance data and does not contain any information valuable for sales and marketing.

While we obviously do know that those queries do contain a possible value for determining typos and other available traffic domains, it seems that this new alternate root does not (at least not publicly) know anything about these potentials. Maybe they should read this blog