How Long Should Registration Take?

[visuelephant]

At 5:00 p.m. a domain was available so initiated reg. with 1and1. After spending 5 hours building a mini-site I go to check the registration and it's reg'd and parked by Moniker. Is 5 hours too long for a registration?

 

[jdk]

Domain registrations are instant. If you registered it thru 1and1 and it is now registered and parked by Moniker, I doubt you got the domain. Did you try and do a whois lookup on the domain to see if it has been registered by someone else.

I would also not use 1and1 for domain registrations. Do a search and you will see why. Or just take this situation for instance.

 

[visuelephant]

Yep, I ran the name thru domaintools...it was available so I went to 1and1 and "congratulations..." so I registered it or so I thought and then they say that Moniker initiated reg. before me. Is that possible? Or was it an inside job?

 

[jdk]

What time was your order placed compared to the registration time in the whois info?

What is the domain?

 

[ZeRohiLL]

Did you get charged for it?

 

[jdk]

I have seen other instances where someone registers a domain at 1and1 and it then gets registered elsewhere before the name is actually registered thru them.

 

[visuelephant]

Record created on: 2008-11-11 21:25:31.0
Database last updated on: 2008-11-11 21:22:01.92
Domain Expires on: 2009-11-11 21:25:32.0

It's mortgagemodificationplan.com

I better not be charged for it. I'll let you know though.


I've not had problems with 1and1 until this time. Like I said, I ordered the name at 5:00 p.m. -- it appears that they got it registered at 9:25.

 

[draggar]

Did you get charged for it?

That's a very god question!

Check your statement at the end of the month.