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I don't know if any of you were aware of the following weird happenings with .ORGs this morning - I only found out by accident.
When I search for domain availability I use a certain registrar (where I have only a handful of names) because they have lightning fast results when you enter a name. However they cost $5 more than my Enom reseller account, so when I decide to register I switch windows and get it through my Enom account.
Now this morning, registrar #1 showed HomeFinance.org as having dropped and available to register. So I jumped to Enom to grab it and Enom said it was gone. I went "Darn - someone beat my by seconds!". I went back and refreshed Registrar #1's window and it said still available! To make a third check, I went to a 3rd completely dfferent registrar - GoDaddy. They also said the name was gone, but when I clicked on the GoDaddy WhoIS it said "No Record Found". So finally I went back to registrar #1 and went through the purchase process and did in fact get the name! (Though it was harry there too in that you had to hit the buy button about 5 times because it kept returning SSL Errors before finally going through).
OK, so now we come to another name - HotBodies.org. Excellent name with great OT number, taken in every other extension large and small. Registrar #1 says available, Enom and GoDaddy say its not. Out of curiosity I went to a 4th registrar - Dotster and they said yes it is available. I did get the name through registrar #1.
I repeated this whole scenario to get MyPets.org and GolfTournaments.org. Enom and GoDaddy both reported them taken. Registrar 1 and Dotster both reported available. I'm sure I never would have gotten all four names if the widely used Enom and GoDaddy correctly reported their availability.
It was NOT a case of Enom & GoDaddy just reporting all .ORGS as unavailable. Others would show up just fine. As of the time of this post, the glitch is still occurring. I have never seen anything like this. Any idea what is going on?
When I search for domain availability I use a certain registrar (where I have only a handful of names) because they have lightning fast results when you enter a name. However they cost $5 more than my Enom reseller account, so when I decide to register I switch windows and get it through my Enom account.
Now this morning, registrar #1 showed HomeFinance.org as having dropped and available to register. So I jumped to Enom to grab it and Enom said it was gone. I went "Darn - someone beat my by seconds!". I went back and refreshed Registrar #1's window and it said still available! To make a third check, I went to a 3rd completely dfferent registrar - GoDaddy. They also said the name was gone, but when I clicked on the GoDaddy WhoIS it said "No Record Found". So finally I went back to registrar #1 and went through the purchase process and did in fact get the name! (Though it was harry there too in that you had to hit the buy button about 5 times because it kept returning SSL Errors before finally going through).
OK, so now we come to another name - HotBodies.org. Excellent name with great OT number, taken in every other extension large and small. Registrar #1 says available, Enom and GoDaddy say its not. Out of curiosity I went to a 4th registrar - Dotster and they said yes it is available. I did get the name through registrar #1.
I repeated this whole scenario to get MyPets.org and GolfTournaments.org. Enom and GoDaddy both reported them taken. Registrar 1 and Dotster both reported available. I'm sure I never would have gotten all four names if the widely used Enom and GoDaddy correctly reported their availability.
It was NOT a case of Enom & GoDaddy just reporting all .ORGS as unavailable. Others would show up just fine. As of the time of this post, the glitch is still occurring. I have never seen anything like this. Any idea what is going on?