Re:I bought netflix.soy
by three_seagrass on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:41PM
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Which is most likely because registries are known for having poor infrastructure. If registrars can't see the name is taken from the registry, they will default to available.
I worked on some registrar-related stuff years ago now and even at that time, Verisign was known for having poor support of providing information about .com registrations.
Re:I bought netflix.soy
by SV_BubbleTime on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:07PM
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> Which is most likely because registries are known for having poor infrastructure.
If people only knew that the internet was held together with bubblegum and duct tape...
Every fundamental layer has just crazy / old legacy foundations that are just incompatible with safe systems. Really opened my eyes when I saw how telco routing worked at the lowest levels.
Clicking "purchase" on them must have kicked the system into fixing itself, then, because they stopped showing up as such after I did so.
Re:I bought netflix.soy
by kirubakaran on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:03PM
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I think so too, because that's when they do the (presumably resource intensive) call to actually attempt the registration and they can update their "most likely available" list with this definitive data.
My guess is that they were never available and there are doing a poor job of figuring out which domains are taken and which are not. I've been this in several other domain name search sites too, especially if there is no nameserver for a registered domain.