Paul,
This article might answer some of your questions:
"Domain Goldrush III - Wild Wild West"
http://www.ecommercebase.com/article.php/447
Generally good names last for milliseconds rather than seconds or minutes.
And many ICANN registrars play an active role in grabbing the names for
"partners".
Lee Hodgson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Another NSI screwup
>
> 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]>
> > Userfriendly.com Domains
> > The most advanced domain lookup tool on the net
> > DNS Services from $1.65/mo
>
> --
> Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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