I came across the same thing the other day and the domain became available
shortly afterwards and I registered it through openSRS.
My guess is that
"Domain not found locally, but Registry points back to local DB.
Local whois DB must be out of date."
appears when NetSol have begun the process of deleting the domain.
The domain actually becomes available not too long aferwards and presumably
the NetSol whois entry disappears some time later.
As I said - just guessing - but I'd say that the 'out of date' message is an
advance clue that the domain is about to come up for grabs.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:55 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 Local whois DB must be out of date."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.
>
>
>
