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Re:Facebook.com Is Listed for Sale by momothereal on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:13PM (#28750296)
Looks more like this particular seller relies on DNS to check if a domain is available, instead of ICANN[1].

https://lookup.icann.org/lookup

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Re:Facebook.com Is Listed for Sale by junon on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:16PM (#28750340)
This is probably the case. Anyone who buys it won't get a successful registration. Probably a refund, if the uniregistry folks are nice enough.

Not really "news", just a faulty check.

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