Hello All,

I am seeking help on trying to register a certain domain. I have contacted the registrar listed under the whois search, and they directed me to pool.com. Here is some of the info from the whois of this domain:

Domain ******.NET

Date Registered: 12/4/2003
Date Modified: 7/16/2006
Expiry Date: 12/4/2004
DNS1: dns.pool.com
DNS2: dns2.pool.com
It appears as if the domain expired on 12/4/2004? Shouldn't it be available to buy by now? When I do a whois search at whois.ws, it says it is available to buy and directs me to name.com to purchase it. But again it is unavailable. Does anyone know who to contact about expired domain purchasing?

Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, I am seeking a seasoned web developer to start a project from scratch with a CMS like drupal, or if you want to build something from scratch. It will be a very serious sports website, that will need to be stronger than the likes of yardbarker.com, ballhype.com or bleacherreport.com. Please PM or respond to this message if you can yourself, or can direct me to the right place. I would not mind outsourcing if I can work with the right company.