Common practice among registrars?

[Brickley]

I was checking the availabilty of a domain at Godaddy, and the results were that it was indeed available, but at a hefty price. I poked around the whois info and it didn't seem to be registered to anyone.

I checked with a couple other registrars and found it free for the taking, so I bought it.

Is it normal for registrars to offer presumably open domains at sky high prices?

 

[biggie]

:talk:

gd is not real time, and often they may do reverse of what happened to you as well.

ie: show a domain as available to register, but it's not.

imo...

 

[Brickley]

:talk:

gd is not real time, and often they may do reverse of what happened to you as well.

imo...

I guess not! Almost a week since I bought it and GD still shows it available in their auction.

 

[Kate]

So that would mean the domain was listed by the previous owner, and still shows up in auctions while being unregistered...

 

[mrfike]

I had a similar experience at GD last week. I checked the domain one place, had to leave for awhile. I found a code for godaddy, and checked the availability again. GoDaddy said "available" and the price was $250??? I put in my cart, changed to one year (still $250),and added code, voila- .99¢. Not sure why they think anyone would pay $250 for a domain available anywhere?

 

[rdurham]

What I have found also, is that Godaddy is in business to make money. There are many time when a premium domain has become available, and Godaddy will take it themselves, and resell at the higher price.

Regards,
LRD