At Namecheap I've also had some weird stuff happen a couple of times with some more exotic TLDs. It would show up as available, when I tried to buy it, it would

At Namecheap I've also had some weird stuff happen a couple of times with some more exotic TLDs. It would show up as available, when I tried to buy it, it would not be available anymore. Some repeated search will then correctly mark it as unavailable. Though the whois will show an older registration date. So I'm not sure what went wrong. Perhaps the specific whois gave some false information or there was some API error or so. I still use Namecheap as domain registrar, though I also use a local one (country in EU), and a EU one (gandi). A not-all-eggs-in-one-basket sort of thing, especially since domain names are often crucial to web sites / apps and their branding.