Has anyone seen something like this - or maybe someone can explain it? We had a customer that allowed their domain name to expire. I'm not sure what the expiration date was, but it must have been within the last couple of months at the most. I'm pretty sure the registrar was NSI.
On Tuesday, I checked the WHOIS and found the name registered to a Popular Enterprises of Knoxville, TN. Entering the expired domain name in a browser took me to the website of netster.com. I figured, oh well, the customer is SOL and will have to find a new domain name to use. On Wednesday, I did another WHOIS on the expired domain and it then came up as unregistered. ??? So I registered the name with OpenSRS and it now shows up in WHOIS, although the root servers haven't picked it up yet. Is there some kind of an explanation for this? Jim
