[44997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does NSI's domain update web site ever work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Schulte)
Tue Jan 8 17:40:30 2002
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 16:39:02 -0600
To: <measl@mfn.org>,
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From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+nanog-post@nospam.schulte.org>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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At 04:17 PM 1/8/2002 -0600, measl@mfn.org wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-1] =A8=B0=BA=A9[Queen Vamp]=A9=BA=B0=A8=
wrote:
>We went through that last year. The domain name was > 3 months past
>expiration, and I finally called NSI and got kicked up the food chain to
>someone "in legal". I was told that "NSI will not release expired domain
>names for other to register unless the name is intentionally transferred by
>the [ex] owner of the domain". And there at lay, until the name we had=
been
>trying for 3 1/2 months to register was mysteriously registered by=
abovenet.
The only way I've found to reliably get an expired domain was to use the=20
services of snapnames.com. Sure enough, a domain had been expired for=20
months, yet could not be registered. Looking through NSI's site (they=20
didn't respond to email or voice mail) I found this:
http://www.netsol.com/en_US/help/domain-names-reg-09.jhtml
'Many factors may cause the "expiration date" to vary from the eventual=20
date of deletion.'
Could they possibly be more vague?
Snap names was eventually able to secure the domain, but it took a month or=
=20
two of waiting for it to actually be deleted from NSI's database. Ironic=20
that NSI even pointed right to snapnames when I did the initial=20
registration search? Hmmm... They seem to want a cut of every domain=20
transaction possible.
>--
>Yours,
>J.A. Terranson
>sysadmin@mfn.org
--chris
