It's possible that the domain was in the zones before deletion (this can happen), or they bought the domain when it came up after expiry, and deleted it within 5 days (it disappears right away in that case).
Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jim McAtee wrote: > 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 > >
