Weird Whois on pending delete

[thebutler]

Anyone can explain this whois on this pending delete? Compare it to what I would call normal in the domain listed below.

Domain Name: 8GV.COM
Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, LLC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 440
Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com
Referral URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com
Name Server: NS29.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS30.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Status: pendingDelete http://www.icann.org/epp#pendingDelete
Updated Date: 28-feb-2015
Creation Date: 19-jul-2002
Expiration Date: 19-jul-2015

Normal whois for pending delete;
Domain Name: 94055.COM
Registrar: JIANGSU BANGNING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1469
Whois Server: whois.55hl.com
Referral URL: http://www.55hl.com
Name Server: NS1.EXP.4CUN.COM
Name Server: NS2.EXP.4CUN.COM
Status: pendingDelete http://www.icann.org/epp#pendingDelete
Updated Date: 28-feb-2015
Creation Date: 27-dec-2011
Expiration Date: 27-dec-2014

 

[JBubba]

The only oddity I see in that Whois record is the expiration date being July 19th 2015, yet the domain dropped today.

The only explanation I could give is that somebody must have manually deleted the domain from their portfolio, rather than letting the domain expire and be deleted in that manner.