What whois.networksolutions.com or whois.internic.net shows is irrelevant
(neither are updated in real time). Both will lag the registry (and often
the root servers) by a considerable time interval. The question is how long
was it from the time you attempted to register the domain via OpenSRS until
it was actually registered via Network Solutions. The OpenSRS registration
process queries the live registry for domain availability information. I
would be very interested to know if a domain shows as available at Network
Solutions, but not at OpenSRS. (It is my understanding that this should not
happen.)
I'm not disputing your experience, but I'm very interested in knowing
exactly what happened!
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: NetSol Unfair Again
At 03:39 PM 9/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Is it possible that the reason it was registerable with Network Solutions
is
>that a little more time had passed? In other words, how long from the last
>time you tried it at OpenSRS until it was registered with Netsol?
No.
On Tuesday Sept 26, 5:17pm (Pacific) my customer registered the domain
successfully through the Network Solutions website without any
problems. He received a confirmation email.
After he received his confirmation message, I immediately (Tuesday Sep 26)
went a did a whois.internic.net for the domain, and received (again):
"Domain not found locally, but Registry points back to local DB.
Local whois DB must be out of date."
(This means that the internic.net was still out of sync with
whois.networksolutions.com and the domain was STILL in limbo)
This morning (Sep 27), I checked whois.internic.net and got:
No match for "(domain not shown here)".
However, when I query a.root-servers.net, the domain is active and points
to the proper nameservers.
