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> they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if s
by kirubakaran 6y ago
> they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries
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.
- saagarjha 6y agoClicking "purchase" on them must have kicked the system into fixing itself, then, because they stopped showing up as such after I did so.
- kirubakaran 6y agoI 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.
- three_seagrass 6y agoWhich 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.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y ago> 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.