Registration weirdness

[noname]

i wanted to register the domain civ4mods.com
so i checked the whois and it was avail
so i logged into my WWD reseller www.domains875.com
and tried to reg it but it said it was already regged.

so i logged into namecheap, (enom reseller)
and i was able to reg the domain.

 

[DJ-Sound]

this happens to me with goaddy often.

 

[{insert name here}]

I believe this is because there whois database is not updated, like it might have been reg'd before, and dropped.

 

[988]

hmmm very odd..

i just called godaddy about this..

i have regged 5 domains with them this morning and they are all still available.. and so they said nobody will be able to reg them because they are already queed....

im gonna try to reg them someplace else

 

[Grrilla]

I believe this is because there whois database is not updated, like it might have been reg'd before, and dropped.

Exactly. Have the same thing happen, particularly w/ names that are right on the cusp and have just dropped or are about to be dropped.

Another whois peculiarity that shows up w/ names that are in this "Twilight Zone" state, is that my whois software will show the name w/ a registrar and unvail. along w/ the expiration date, (usually about 60 days prior), but the info obtained from the registrar db shows "no record" for the domain.

 

[len fischer]

This happens all the time. I did notice a pattern, it happens more in the early afternoon like 11-1:00 PM than at night