i am not sure, but i think registrars can delete a domain and not pay for it within the first 5(?) days of registration.
i repeat, i am not sure. Swerve > From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 08:07:50 -0600 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Expired domain weirdness > > 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 >
