> Timeline: > > May 28, 2000 - Domain was originally registered > April 24, 2002 - Transferred from Domain Direct. During transfer, one > year was added making the expiration date May 28, 2003 > June 2, 2002 - Authoritive name servers changed to domaindirect and domain > began resolving to a domain direct page stating that the domain #######.com > had been suspended.
Were the nameservers ever changed *to* *.dnscentral.com? I've reviewed the zone file summary data for *.dnscentral.com going back to April 20, 2002 and there is no indication that *.dnscentral.com was ever made authoritative for the domain in question. What I suspect happened was that the NS change was never made in the first place and domain direct changed the pointers on the NS record to a default expired page when it thought the domain was set to expire - this was likely yesterday. I will note that the June 2, 2002 zone update shows no change in status for the domain in question (both from a DNScentral and Domaindirect perspective - ie - neither NS cluster gained or lost the domain name). The June 3 data hasn't completed crunching yet, so it may shed some more light, but I suspect that my earlier analysis will hold true. -rwr
