Domain expired for over a year

Best course of action?

[nebuhost]

There is a domain i'm somewhat interested in. Its been expired for (way) over a year now. Whois Source lists it as Deleted and Available again, but it still shows in whois, and, I'm unable to register it.

Has anyone ever ran into one this old?

Thanks.

[SEGuru2]

Hmmm, that is strange!

I run an expired domains service and that is a new one on me. I'll ask one of the techs and see what they come up with.

[nebuhost]

Thank you SEguru. Its a good deal longer than a year, and whois simply says

Record expires on xx-xxx-2001.

I've read Lisa's comments in another thread about registrar auto renewals and whois not showing the true date and money may be owed, but...this doesn't seem to be the case, or, I'm missing something.

[Slade]

I had a domain I was interested in as well a few years ago. It sat in expired status for 6 months before it finally dropped. If I had to guess, I'd say it's like NetSol's hostage tactics: [webmasterworld.com...]

[nebuhost]

Hmm, I don't think its that. (?) I've been watching this domain for about a year now (prior to that being implemented) and its been the same. I didn't think the hostage period was able to last that long, either.