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I was watching a domain in today's drops. It was registered at eNom.
At SnapNames it was listed until their last order time without any bids.
At eNom it had the complete eNom whois, but at some point in the last couple of hours they deleted it from their whois servers and only the Registry's whois data was showing. They probably do this the same with all their drops. So one question I have is at what time do eNom delete an expiring domain from their nameservers?
At NameJet, the domain disappeared from their auction listings about 2 hours before their last order time. This happened about the same time as the eNom whois changes, as best as I could tell.
So I thought, because there were no bids on SnapNames or NameJet, I was in good shape to have a shot at winning this domain with my Pheenix backorder
Low and behold. The domain was newly registered at eNom. The whois says
Registrant: WHOIS AGENT
Organization: PROFILE GROUP
Street: PMB # 365, 2711 CENTERVILLE ROAD, SUITE 300
City: WILMINGTON
State: DE
Postcode: 19808-1645
Phone: +1.4252144609
Fax: +1.4256960234
Now this is a fairly generic whois info. And it is suspicious to me that the domain disappeared from NameJet's listing a couple of hours before their normal auction time, and was then re-registered at the existing Registrar, eNom. Fair enough it dropped, since it has a new registration date. But it smacks of some collusion to me. Does anyone have any observations I may have overlooked, or have any idea who this registrant is?
At SnapNames it was listed until their last order time without any bids.
At eNom it had the complete eNom whois, but at some point in the last couple of hours they deleted it from their whois servers and only the Registry's whois data was showing. They probably do this the same with all their drops. So one question I have is at what time do eNom delete an expiring domain from their nameservers?
At NameJet, the domain disappeared from their auction listings about 2 hours before their last order time. This happened about the same time as the eNom whois changes, as best as I could tell.
So I thought, because there were no bids on SnapNames or NameJet, I was in good shape to have a shot at winning this domain with my Pheenix backorder
Low and behold. The domain was newly registered at eNom. The whois says
Registrant: WHOIS AGENT
Organization: PROFILE GROUP
Street: PMB # 365, 2711 CENTERVILLE ROAD, SUITE 300
City: WILMINGTON
State: DE
Postcode: 19808-1645
Phone: +1.4252144609
Fax: +1.4256960234
Now this is a fairly generic whois info. And it is suspicious to me that the domain disappeared from NameJet's listing a couple of hours before their normal auction time, and was then re-registered at the existing Registrar, eNom. Fair enough it dropped, since it has a new registration date. But it smacks of some collusion to me. Does anyone have any observations I may have overlooked, or have any idea who this registrant is?
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