In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Markus Enzenberger wrote: > It seems that some > domain-grabber immediately bought it, probably hoping that I will buy it back > for a lot of money... :-) > Happened to me when I was out of the country and unable to get online to update my credit card details with my hosting company. Very very annoying. Got the domain back after 18 months. Just leave it, and do a check on availability through some (reputable) domain re-seller every couple of months. Didn't know about the German residency requirements. Doesn't anyone in Germany offer a "parking address" service for people like yourself? After all, your typical WHOIS record contains an administrative contact, a technical contact and a billing contact, and I'd guess that only one of them (admin?) needs to be in Germany. Oh dear, someone has been fscking with DNS. Trying to look up the WHOIS records for microsoft.com I get :
> whois -h whois.crsnic.net microsoft.com ... > > Whois Server Version 2.0 > > Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered > with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net > for detailed information. > > > MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM > MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM > MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET > MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM [It goes on a bit] > >>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:43:42 EST <<< > -- Aidan Karley, Aberdeen, Scotland Written at Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:37 GMT, but posted later. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/