On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 7:07 AM Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:

I suspect it's more a case of

domain foo.com provides DNS service for several other domains,
including bar.com.

bar.com is fully paid up.

foo.com doesn't get paid up on time; expires, but is quickly
re-claimed and paid up again.

queries for bar.com suddenly show up as "this domain is
available" due to foo.com (which provides DNS for bar.com)
having briefly gone into the expired state. Users of bar.com
are (rightly) confused, as bar.com was never in a jeopardy
state.

We'll see if Jeff confirms my suspicion of what happened
in this case. ^_^;

Matt

That's exactly what happened, exacerbated by foo.com's domain registration being held in the account of a now retired employee, so we got no notifications on it (his email was... somewhat personalized over 20+ years of managing it).

I still think that this is not the correct way for NetSol to handle this situation, particularly since the pages they put up look like phishbait designed by Austin Powers.

Jeff Shultz

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