On 21 Apr 2016, at 15:51, Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org> wrote:
try registering the puny code version? xn--5o7dx5d.com
Genius idea! Trying it...
Domain.com tells me that I can get it for .COM, .CLUB, .NET, .US, .ORG, and .ME but that sadly it is already taken in .CO, .ONLINE, .SITE, .WEBSITE, and .BIZ.
FWIW: shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.co ns | grep status ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 25390 shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.online ns | grep status ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55541 shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.site ns | grep status ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56114 shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.website ns | grep status ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 7099 shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.biz ns | grep status ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64503 and: shaun% whois -h whois.nic.biz xn--5o7dx5d.biz Not found: xn--5o7dx5d.biz This suggests xn--5o7dx5d.biz isn’t registered or in some lock/expire/suspended state at the registry. I can’t be bothered checking the other TLDs. Trusting a registrar’s control panel is usually a bad idea. Perhaps the registrar is getting confused by the EPP responses from the registry and translates them into bogus messages about domain names being already taken. Or maybe the registrar’s screwing up the outgoing domainCreate/domainInfo EPP requests? I think you need to find another registrar.