Manually Registering expired names

[a2zofb2b]

Is it possible to manually register an expired/dropped name?
Say for example

example . com gets dropped on Feb 10 2003 at 2:00 pm and was registered at networksolutions
If I enquire the whois at networksolutions at 2:01 pm , will it show as available ?

Will the same info be updated in all other registrars whois at 2:00 pm ?

 

[Joe826]

The whois generally has some lag time, usually a couple of hours (according to my experience). Your safest bet is to use the tool at your favorite registrar to check availability.

Joe

 

[Anthony Ng]

Of course it's possible to register expired names manually. The question is: how many others are competing with you out there?

 

[DotDuDe]

I agree.. it's rather easy to manually register a domain name, unless it's medium value (well sometimes you may be lucky) but if it's a really good drop, forget about it