Friday, Friday, December 21, 2001, 3:04:29 PM, zxcvb wrote: >>Ok, I may be incorrect and maybe they do get deleted. But then how do >>they register them first? Are all of these companies running constant >>checks on the domains to see if they're available yet?
> Well most services check during the batch drop. If you drop at a random > time ... and then notify the other party so they can register the domain > the instant it drops it still could be technically "released" and > re-registered. The registrars don't control this, the registry does. The registrar sends a delete to the registry, the registry makes them all available at the same time. A registrar can't circumvent that system, except to do what Tucows is doing and never send the delete in. The hijacking thing was more than hijackers would hack a whois record, change the data, the registrant gets no renewal data, so they let it lapse, and then the hijacker would pick up after deletion. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Webcertificates.info SSL Certificates for resellers from $49ea
