On Dec 4, 2000 the domain creative-kids.com expired. I was going to purchase
this for my sister. Up until around Feb 18th or so, a whois would return that
this domain was till taken, several months after it expired. Around Feb
18th, whois gave a crytpic error about how the domain record was out-of-sync or something
like that. Regardless, I still could not register it.
Then all of a sudden
on Feb 23rd, it was registered by someone else.
NSI says on their pages about how
if a domain expires, it may take some time before it can be purchased again due to
their system.
I say bullshit. If they did not control the database, they
could not hold onto domains like this. There should be something centralized
that at the end of the day that the domain expires, it is up for grabs again.
If
ICANN can not see that by letting NSI keep the keys to the bank that the money is
not safe, then they are just as useless as everyone suspects. Either that or
my mention of money above is not too far off from some truth!