Domain name expiry help

[billabong]

Hi, a domain name I have been eyeing up was due to expire on 23rd March 2001 and I went to buy it yesterday and this morning and its still showing being registered to the same person with the expiry date of 23rd March 2001. Are the servers which hold this information slow to update. Or is there some sort of holding period after a domain name has exipred to which u cant buy it?

Cheers

 

[The Stigenator]

actually the registrant of the domain gets a letter from his registrant company for money for renewal. If he pays it it continues. Check in 6 hrs it should update. The update happens every 12 hrs at Internic (network solutions).

If he hasnt paid for it, and it expires you can buy it. I dont know when it will be available for purchase though.