Whois is not a real time system for availability.
What Chuck said is what happened. NSI has no such advantage.
whois.internic.net doesn't return that error message, btw. The
> "Domain not found locally, but Registry points back to local DB.
> Local whois DB must be out of date."
error message is only sent by whois.networksolutions.com
And typically it means that NSI has sent the domain for a registry
deletion, and it may or may not be still under the 5 day exclusion
where no one can register it. During the 5 day exclusion period, it
will still show up in whois.internic.net but not in
whois.networksolutions.com (it will return the message above). During
this 5 day period, no one, including NSI, can register this domain
name.
After 5 days the domain will become available. When that happens the
domain will almost ALWAYS still show up in whois.internic.net, until
the next whois update. So even though it is available via the real
time system it will show up in the whois.internic.net database.
The domain can then be registered by any registrar, including NSI.
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