Namepros member Wot posted a thread a few days back where he asked the community what they thought about a certain situation involving a domain registration and it ending up in the account of the CEO of the registrar.
At first he could not give the full details, he has now given the full name and posted the whole story on his blog.
From his blog post and Namepros:
I “registered” Weather.id with OnlyDomains.com
Received confirmation On 26 Aug 2014, at 18:31, [email protected] wrote:
Thank you for your recent order with Onlydomains, your global solutions provider.
The notice has been sent to you to confirm that we have received an order for the following products: 1. DOMAIN CREATE: weather.id , Term: 1 YEAR(S), Price: USD 79.00.
The .id Registry is not automated, therefore the registration process is manual. Registrations will be granted on a first come first served basis, for applications with completed and correct documentation.
For a company, business or individual located outside of Indonesia:
Please provide the following information.
- a Local Presence Agreement and POA (Power of Attorney) documents attached to this email.
4)
From: ME
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 7:13:02 AM[email protected] ([email protected])
Completed attachments – a Local Presence Agreement and POA (Power of Attorney) documents attached to this email.
Plus copy of passport
5)
From: ME
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 7:39:46 AM
To: [email protected] ([email protected]); [email protected] ([email protected])I see the name is still not registered.
What is the problem?
A response would be appreciated.
Thank you
OnlyDomains is a reseller of Instra and now he receives an email telling him
Unfortunately the domain name weather.id is not available to register.
Occasionally our registration system does not correctly detect if a domain name already exists.
In some circumstances, the domain name may appear on a non-published reserved/banned list, and for this reason, it may appear that the domain name is technically available to register.
This order has now been cancelled and a credit will be applied to your account.
He rechecked the Whois. The name has now been registered by the CEO OF Instra Tony Lentino!
You can read all the details on his blog
This does not smell good, it would be nice for Instra to explain how this happened.
