Hiya.
I've been checking the whois.crsnic.net twice a day, but I've been
checking for availability via the API every half hour since my
initial NSI ticket, issued on June 15th.
How are others dealing with this? Should I be polling for a domain's
availability every few seconds instead of every half hour? That seems
like an aweful waste of bandwidth....
If this comes up again (as I'm sure it will), is the "right" course of
action to pay NSI their multiple years of registration for services not
rendered, and just call it the cost of doing business? That too seems
like the wrong approach....
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:06:55PM -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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