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Re:I bought netflix.soy by three_seagrass on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:41PM (#23306342)
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.

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Re:I bought netflix.soy by SV_BubbleTime on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:07PM (#23307052)
> 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.

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