On 2001-10-28 (Sunday) at 21:15:27 -0500, erol M wrote: > > Does anyone know why a domain registered through Netsol > > that is showing an expiration date of over 7 months ago > > not being released to be available? > > Know one knows the complete answer to this issue, some domains get > released some dont ...Im starting to think it is a completely random > process that NSI has, who knows.
It seems that if there's a host record in NSI's database within the domain it won't get deleted. For example a while back I setup nameservers for a company that later went bust. They had the domains ontech.com, ontech.org and ontech.net (all through NSI) which all expired after the company's demise. The .com and .org got deleted and re-registered by other people, but the .net didn't. The only difference is that there are a couple of host records for nameservers under ontech.net (which I think a couple of other domains are still referencing although they're now dead). *Maybe* if these host records got deleted the domain would then be deleted, but I wouldn't hold my breath. If the the domain you're talking about has no host records under it then it's anyone's guess as to why it hasn't been deleted. Dealing with NSI and trying to understand their systems can turn into a Kafkaesque nightmare. Mark.
