It was always this way on our side. There are 2 classes of domain deletions from the registry point, although the same action is called: 1. instantaneous deletions and 2. domains that registry will withhold for several days.
It basically comes to relationship between registry and registrar. Domains that are paid into next term by registrar, and do not qualify for reimbursement (to registrar, again) will be on hold for 5 or more days by registry, and dropped at 2:00PM. Others, and these includes our expired domain, get dropped instantaneously. Our domains are in this category, as we try not get hit with paying for something that is not paid to us :). As an opposite example, almost all Verisign Registrar (NetSol) domains belong to second category, as they unpredictably delete domains, and most of these would not qualify for reimbursement. I guess it's not their highest priority to straiten this, as the money stays in the family (Verisign Registry gets what Verisign Registrar loses) :) All this is strictly .com,.net,.org BTW. Zeljko Dimic, OpenSRS Developer PS: My comments do not necessarily reflect opinion of Tucows, blah, blah, ... Marc Schneiders wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, at 16:51 [=GMT-0400], Zeljko Dimic wrote: > > > domain gets deleted from both our system and registry, at > > which point it can get picked-up by anyone. Since this is happening during the > > night, > > Has this changed then? Or has Tucows moved to Afghanistan? > > > you have to be pretty dedicated in monitoring such domain, in order to > > have any chance of getting it.
