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How difficult is it to register a domain name?

For one of my projects I sent an e-mail to my web host to register a domain name, together with a bunch of other domains. As I wanted to use that particular domain yesterday, I set it up within my control panel, as I know of my host that a domain is being registered within one day.

So far no problems, but as I wanted to connect with my FTP-program, there were some errors. Finally I checked the WHOIS data of the SIDN, and I saw that the domain was ‘requested’.

After calling my host, they called with the SIDN, and checked a few things. Finally the SIDN figured out that the domain was registered one day before by another company. The WHOIS database didn’t show that the domain wasn’t free anymore by some mystical reason…

At this very moment, the WHOIS shows the record, with as registrant the other company, but with my host’s name servers. That’s because of a bug at SIDN’s as my host also requested the domain. The record also says that the domain was registered at the fifth of July, 2004.

All together pretty crap…

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