For Sale High-bid lingers on NW purchase list?

[William9]

I was high-bidder with NW on a domain weeks ago. Whois-search indicated that the domain was “registered with whois.webex.net” , so I am pretty sure that NW did not grab it. The regular whois indicates
“Registrar: 007NAMES, INC.
Updated: 05-jan-2003
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Whois Results from
007NAMES, INC.:
[whois.007names.com]
WHOIS Server Release 1.0
Searching for domain...
The Domain Name xxxxxx.com does not exit
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Details Held In ICANN rootserver (a.gtld-servers.net)”
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But - my NW purchase list still lists me as high-bidder and indicates the domain as expired?

I e-mailed NW to see if I understood it all and if so please nuke it from my purchase list. I got this e-mailed back:

“I I'm sorry, but it's not currently possible to remove domains from the high bid list. This is a feature we've requested from our developers and we hope that it is added soon.”

I am not griping because I lost the domain, but does anyone else have this NW lingering bid problem?

P.S:
I did an NS lookup and other digs to no avail, e.g.:
[66.46.181.133] returned a non-authoritative response in 78 ms:
Queried domain does not exist
So what do you think?

TIA.

 

[fizz]

I know the problem. About a year ago I snagged a name with Snap and happened to have the NameWinner high bid at the time.

I decided not to renew the name after a year, and out of interest went to NW to check if anyone had a bid on it.

Guess who had the high bid? Me!! It was my bid from a year ago, LOL.

 

[William9]

Thanks so much Fizz for explaining one risk I envisioned existed related to a lingering high bid.

Your snapped domain would normally have cost $6.95 to transfer - but because you had the lingering high bid, you were able to transfer it for only your bid of $17,000!:weird:

I know this is not the legal forum – but – the only thing more efficient would be to sue yourself and win - great except for the $50,000 legal bill.:weird::weird:

Thanks for your input Fizz.

 

[strongvis]

the name was grabbed POSITIVE if it's showing 007. What was the name?

NW will clear it out eventually . . . I leave my bids in there. eventuually they zero them out

 

[clemzonguy]

One time I bid on a name which they apparently never went after b/c the system did not update the on-hold date to expired status. I should have dropped it then re-added it. Their whole site is buggy but it works 95 percent of the time.