10-month expired domain unavailable

[peekaboo]

how can domain which expired in july 2004 - be still unavailable for registration today, some 10 months later?

voiprates.com

 

[dotNetKing]

Some registrars seem to do this, especially register.com.

Surprise surprise, this is with register.com

 

[seeker]

it will probably be auctioned off sometime in the future, or 'sold' to one of their own people living in some Caribean country, whom will then try to sell it to us...

in the bottom of the whois search, you will find this:
Status: REGISTRAR-HOLD
Updated Date: 24-aug-2004
Creation Date: 17-jul-2001
Expiration Date: 17-jul-2005

says a lot

 

[dotNetKing]

In my limited experience with these register.com names, they can drop eventually.

I picked up ingles.org (English.org in Spanish) in the "snapname" days, something like 8 to 10 months after expiry date.

This was admittedly before the auction days, but I don't think register.com is auctioning off its own names yet (although I might be wrong).

In any case, this keeping of names months and months beyond expiry date is nothing new with register.com. I seem to remember a whole load of their .info names were dropping a year ago which had also exceeded the normal grace period too. (Not RGP period).

 

[peekaboo]

so if they r apparently 'free' 2 do these kinds of things, how come other registrars don't follow the same pattern?

 

[Poker]

so if they r apparently 'free' 2 do these kinds of things, how come other registrars don't follow the same pattern?

It's not that they are free to do it, It's that not enough people are complaining about it IMO.