> I was watching a domain that I wanted. It was registered with OpenSRS which > I was told would be released 5 days after it was deleted. I tried to > register it for a couple of days after it was deleted and then all of a > sudden it had been re-registered by someone else and the registration date > was the day of deletion when for me it was still showing as unregisterable.
Until the registry offers real-time WHOIS, that type of behavior can be expected. It was most likely re-registered the minute it dropped, but Verisign's WHOIS took a couple days to reflect the fact.
