Available at some but not others?

[domainer50]

Over the past couple of days i have been searching many many names. I have seen that when you search a certain name on one website it might be available, but on the next one it is not available. How does this work? Their is usually no whois info for the domain, or it says that it is "reserved" so what would happen if i tried to register the name?

 

[verbster]

Some Whois providers are slower than others. I've found qwhois.net and du.com are better than most. The most accurate whois through a registrar has been using an affiliate site of Wild West; it also includes Whois info.

Normally, any "reserved" domains cannot be registered. If you get a Whois that has nothing, try one of the ones above.

 

[domainer50]

Some Whois providers are slower than others. I've found qwhois.net and du.com are better than most. The most accurate whois through a registrar has been using an affiliate site of Wild West; it also includes Whois info.

Normally, any "reserved" domains cannot be registered. If you get a Whois that has nothing, try one of the ones above.

Oh. I found some great names that are "Reserved" but some of them are real sites and others arent.

 

[AbsoluteKC]

I normally check the availability via GoDaddy and no problems so far

 

[domainer50]

I normally check the availability via GoDaddy and no problems so far

Right. Well i use the dotster search function as it checks all the TLD's at the same time, then i register with godaddy. But latley ive been getting names that are said to be available but really arent.

 

[Coopey]

Is it because Dotster's search function sucks?

As already pointed out:
http://www.namepros.com/1650904-post6.html

 

[Kate]

Some registrars are not real time, for example godaddy seems to be using cached whois info... so does domaintools. If you need to check domain availability enom/namecheap/moniker/dynadot seem to be always accurate.
In particular if you are waiting for a tasted domain to drop be sure to check with a 'live' registrar.

Also the domains that have no name servers will not be in the zone files. As a result some registrars may incorrectly report them as available.

 

[Spade]

Some registrars are not real time, for example godaddy seems to be using cached whois info... so does domaintools. If you need to check domain availability enom/namecheap/moniker/dynadot seem to be always accurate.
In particular if you are waiting for a tasted domain to drop be sure to check with a 'live' registrar.

Also the domains that have no name servers will not be in the zone files. As a result some registrars may incorrectly report them as available.

Yup! I check availability for recently "tasted' domain names on Moniker and name Cheap - where they show as available - in Godaddy, they would not. (You can call GoDaddy, because it appears their backend is live, so a rep can put it through for you, but there customer interface is not!)

 

[domainer50]

Thanks for all of your help guys. I wish these names were actually available for me to register. But i guess not.