Whois debate. Need some help.

[DotWeekly]

Ok, I am having issues with a domain name that a friend of mine owns. The domain name is a .com .

Which whois provider is the OFFICIAL whois for the domain with the accurate information (mainly the Expire Date)?

Verisign
Internic
Registrar

My friend renewed his domain. The whois at the registrar shows it does not expire until 2017. Now I check with the Registry for .com domains (Verisign) but it shows it expires in 2008. Now I would say Verisign would hold the Correct data. (btw, he renewed the domain about month or more ago) Internic.net also states the domain expires in 2008. The registrar is the only one that shows 2017 for the expiry date.

This is what I think. I think Verisign has the correct data, since they are the Registry. I know my friend renewed the domain, but I think Parava.net (the registrar) did not pay Verisign for the renewal. Am I correct?

(I tried to post in the domain discussion, but I have Reached My Limit?)

 

[Pommy - The DN Doc]

I just bought a Register.com name in the drops a few weeks ago

Domaintools whois.sc shows

Top section under Registry Data

Created: 2000-02-19

Expires: 2009-02-19

^ Which looks correct


Below the whois record shows

Created on..............: Wed, Dec 27, 2006

Expires on..............: Tue, Feb 19, 2019 << 2019 ?????


Very Strange

It shows the same using allwhois.com


Any ideas ?

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Thats terrible - you could miss renewing it or even worse - they could have got the expiry date shorter and it could have dropped before natural date.

 

[Domagon]

I've run into the same problem at various registrars both big and small - sync problems most often are not due to "floating" the money or whatnot, but rather simply due to poorly coded renewal scripts that sometime flake out and don't update the registry; new registrations are sometimes affected in a similar way - person regs a new domain, but the registry doesn't know that, and then sometime later the "registrant" discovers someone else has their domain despite getting renewal notices from their registrar - the .com/.net thin registry model is a mess, but I digress.

Just email the registrar (in your friend's situation Parava; http://www.internic.net/registrars/registrar-94.html ) to fix the registry date.

Often no need to go in much detail beyond explaining the registrar and registry expiration dates don't match.

Most often registrars with sync problems have already received numerous similar trouble-tickets in the past, and thus they already understand the issue and know how to fix it.

Using domain monitoring services, such as DomainTools, greatly reduces the risk of unknowingly losing domains - on a related note, using one's own unique name servers and monitoring those (a premium service at DomainTools) adds another level of protection for those holding numerous domains - many registrars automatically update the DNS to their own immediately upon expiration.

Ron