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+ Bird-E	May 19 2006, 04:48 PM
Dedicated member Posts: 420 Group: Elite Member Member #76 Joined: June 25, 2005	A while ago, I was in the ratrace to get a domain name. It was in the final stages of its redemption period, after being registered for 2 years. Its status changed to pending delete, then it was deleted. Score. I jumped onto it and registered it just fine. BUT. There was an error. The status went BACK to pending delete. They tried to reregister it for me but no luck, so I was refunded. So for the past five days ive been waiting for it to become available. This morning, I got up to find that it had just been registered. Either it has a holding page or its a spam site. Either way. Im sure that its all just because it takes 5 days for it to become available. But i find it annoying that such a glitch occured, 'leading me on', and thanks to it I lost the domain I wanted. Some say the smart thing to have done would've been to backorder it. I dont doubt them. But firstly, I didnt think it would be popular, so I felt I was relatively safe. Plus I already had a failed 2 year registration, and wanted that to go towards 2 years of registration, rather than 1 year (the same I can afford for that price). For the time being, I'll have a sub par domain, and hope that in a years time, the owner chooses not to renew. EDIT: Could it be that this is a ploy by some registrar to get me to pay more (because I added it to my cart a few times, then took it out, and Ive done countless searches and whois lookups)?


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