Hello Paul,
Many deleted domains only remain available for seconds.
If you were counting on waiting for the domain to not show up in
whois.crsnic.net as the sign it was available, that is probably why
you missed it. Whois is not realtime, and should never be used for
availability, especially of deleted domains.
The other party legitimately registered the name, so no, there is no
recourse.
Monday, July 02, 2001, 8:35:07 PM, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> Somehow, I didn't think it would happen to me.
> I called NSI a month ago to find out why the domains pritel.com and
> pritel.net were still in their database despite having expired in 1999.
> I was told by a dutiful phone drone that she had marked both domains for
> deletion, and as soon as they were gone, I could recreate them.
> Last Friday, the NSI's whois record for pritel.com disappeared. But the
> record at whois.crsnic.net remained, as did the unavailability of the
> domain. I've been checking for their availability every half hour for
> the past month, but suddently, this evening, whois.crsnic.net reported
> a different registrar for pritel.com. And the date of the registration
> is June 30th, but at no point did the domain become available! I
> followed their instructions to the letter, making it clear that I would
> be doing the re-registration with them once it was possible.
> Has NetSol made me SOL? IS there recourse in a case like this?
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