Yes, see Tanya Quinn's post on the subject a little while ago actually here is the relevent bit:
>OpenSRS returns Domain Taken if the domain is not explicitly available >when it >checks with the registry. If OpenSRS cannot contact Afilias to determine >if the >domain is available or not, it will return Domain Taken, which is >somewhat >misleading but is likely what is happening. On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jochen Tuchbreiter wrote: > Hi, > > is anyone else getting unjustified "Domain taken" errors while trying to > realtime-register .info-Domains ? We are getting them for names that are > cerainly not registred like fdskhljfghjereghjhjgds.info > > They occur on about 1 out of 10 tries, the other messages we get are the > usual "can't take the load" messages like > > Authentication Error: Unrecognized Peer > Internal Server Error. (OPS Timeout) > > etc. - they don't worry us like the "domain taken" one though. > > best regards, > > Jochen Tuchbreiter > techteam domainfactory GmbH > -- mark jeftovic http://www.easydns.com http://mark.jeftovic.net
