stu2 - 12:15 am on Apr 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

I just heard of another experience the same as yours on another forum, RxRecruiters. Where the domain had been registered at GoDaddy and backordered at GoDaddy. In that case, the domain also didn't go to TDNAM for auction also. It dropped. A "taster" picked it up and dropped it again a few days later. The person who backordered it eventually got the domain after it became available for the second time.

As an aside. I've seen several instances now where GoDaddy were successful in registering a "tasted" domain which was eventually dropped. Maybe the rest of the dropcatchers are only watching the initial drop, whereas GoDaddy's is a continual monitoring of the backorder.