Whois is like the telephone directory. If you want to start/stop/change
your phone service, it will be reflected in the phone book the next time
a new edition is published, but your change does not depend on the new
phone book being published. In the same way, a Whois update merely
reflects (not controls) changes made since the previous update.
In your example, the whois database was updated at around 2:00 AM. The
domain name probably became available for registration around 6:30 AM.
So by the time Whois was updated, it was almost 20 hours after the
domain became available, and someone else registered it in that time.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mr. Chris <moneyman@turbocash.com>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 4:13 AM
Subject: expired domain names
> 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?
>
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