Happened to me with a registrar whose name I can no longer remember. And yep, dropped them like a hot potato. Waited the cancellation period (I think it was 5

Happened to me with a registrar whose name I can no longer remember. And yep, dropped them like a hot potato. Waited the cancellation period (I think it was 5 or 7 days for a registrar to cancel a registration back in those days) and the domain became available (from a different registrar).