Re: Pending Orders that are "taken" but there is no WHOIS...

From: Charles Daminato (chuck@tucows.com)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 18:11:43 EST


Thomas,

whois is not a verifiable source of domain availability (close, but never
100% accurate). You can send me the domains offlist and I'll look them up
for you, but I'm sure this is nothing more than a coincidence.

Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
chuck@tucows.com

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Thomas Mon wrote:

> Anyone else having this problem?
>
> For the last hour or so orders for new domain names that come in for new
> registrations are being held in our pending order queue even though the
> whois servers tell me that they are available for registration.... I can't
> belive that 4 different orders in the last hour all hit some sort of
> quasi-deleted stage and that is causing the problem...
>
> Please any input is useful.... (well, in theory at least).
>
> Tom
>
>
>



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