It appears that if a domain name is on the Pending Delete list, Network Solutions is somehow inheriting it, changing the status and expiration date to a year from now.
This may be their attempt to get ready for the WLS list, but forget about getting an expired domain anymore. You cannot back-order one because you just won't get it.
Over the weekend I was watching several hundred domain names that had a status of "pending delete" and now ALL of them are now registered through Network Solutions, with an expiration date of next year.
Expired domains and the hopes of registering domain names with good PageRank, links, and traffic coming to it is over, folks. Network Solutions has now made it a reality.
Could you post a little more info please?
/claus
All of these domains are expiring this time next year (all of a sudden).
If you have any doubt, just go try to put a back order on any domain name that's going to expire today. Tomorrow it will have been registered with Network Solutions.
It appears that those companies that allow you to put a back-order on a domain name are now going to be out of business.
There's something weird going on.
They aren't the same as NetSol: [prweb.com...]
There's something weird going on.
Look for SiteFinder on these domains in a matter of days.
Fortunately, Pool.com grabbed up the .com domain name I'd been waiting for for several months without any trouble.
So it's not all domains, anyway.
I had backordered two excellent .com domains that were pending delete back in April. I had kept up a subscription on one of them for two years, so I don't have to tell you how I felt when during the pending delete stage the old owners' contact info disappeared, but Network Solutions remained listed as the registrar, AND the expiration date was changed to 2004.
I wrote to the backorder house and asked what was up. A Tech replied that the phenomenon was something that they hadn't seen before and he'd check into it. I'm not certain what he found out, though, because a few days later both domains were transferred to me.
I hope you have the same good fortune.
This would have been widely publicized by now (Thursday) if this was really the case. There are a lot of people that watch things like this from a lot of angles.
Are you sure the domain wasn't just grabbed by a snap-up service that managed to get it before yours? As BlueSky mentioned, it looks like /someone/ besides NetSol got it (but might have registered it through NetSol).
Also, it could just be NetSol prepping the domain for delete. I've seen weird behavior like this before right before a domain is dropped for good.
Did you call them and ask them about it? That's what I would do, first, before panicking.
My guess is that it's just some weird new part of the prepping for deletion process like bakedjake suggested.
I'm paranoid enough, however, to imagine that someone on the inside scans the list to see what high-value names it contains before pushing the delete button. In my experience, my higher-value names always took longer to become available after expiration and longer to transfer after owned, so someone must be paying attention.
I'd absolutely contact the powers that be. It might help the guy with his finger on the delete button to do the right thing.
