How are expired domains being registered before NSI registry updates?
I was watching a few domains this week that were expired, and every single
one of them
were registered by a new party BEFORE the morning's NSI registry update.
for example ANIMEPICTURES.COM:
As of June 2nd its record looked like this:
Domain Name: ANIMEPICTURES.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: DNS.BTB.NET
Name Server: NS2.EXODUS.NET
Updated Date: 27-may-2001
>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 02:02:46 EDT <<<
then 10 seconds AFTER the morning update on June 3rd:
Domain Name: ANIMEPICTURES.COM
Registrar: A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, INC.
Whois Server: whois.namesystem.com
Referral URL: http://www.NameSystem.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Updated Date: 02-jun-2001
>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 02:01:06 EDT <<<
As far as we could tell, this domain was never "available" at NSI registry.
Another good example is PERSONALWEBPAGES.COM
it went ONHOLD 5/26 was re-registered on 6/1 but did not show any new
whois information until 6/2
Again, a day after the record changed!
It was my understanding that domains that were expired for 30-40 days were
placed ONHOLD for 5-7 days before
being finally deleted from NSIregistry and thus becoming available to the
public again. All I have seen this week
is domains being re-registered BEFORE NSI registry shows any change in records.
Am I at fault for waiting for changes at whois.crsnic.net as evidence of
availablility?
When ONHOLD domains are completely available to re-register, where does
this information show first?
