Tucows/Afternic simply dropped the ball

When Tucows announced they would be sending expired domain names to Afternic.com I was happy. So I did all my home work and found several domains that I liked right away (about 40). I put all these domains in to Afternic and all were listed as expired domain auctions. So I watched them in My Domain Alerts at Afternic and was ready to place my order the day before the auctions were to start….

All that week, domains in my watch list were their one day, gone the next. that can happen as these are Expired Domains and public renew them. UFO.net was one and I spoke with the owner and he did renew it. He said he had simply forgot about the renewal.

Now domains like Zira.com, Woodchip.com, ParkRangers.com, PcPrices.com and OrgX.com were all certain bids on my part. I got an newsletter from Afternic about Zira.com yesterday "Unfortunately the following domain(s) have been withdrawn from auction and are no longer available." Zira.com

Again, no biggy as I’m certain the owner renewed it…. I mean it was in the fitting moment frame of the expired dates. It was additionally on the servers Tucows uses for expired domains. Well I checked whois and Tucows has owned Zira.com since around 12-05-2006 (whois history’s first listing with Tucows as the owner)!

Woodchip.com, ParkRangers.com and OrgX.com  just dissapeared from My Domain Alerts with No mail from Afternic. Hmmmm Well again Tucows owns all 3 according to whois.

The fact is, Tucows/Afternic listed a great deal of domain names Tucows owned on Afternic and now have been removing them. Was that a clerical error? Just a mix up in the new adventure? A way to draw a buzz to the new match up? Just a mistake?

I know I am upset as all my hard work researching the domains went out the window since all the domains I was watching are now gone and no longer listed on Afternic. Will I be doing that hard work again, to only have it happen a second moment? No. Tucows did have the right to "renew" the domains which would remove the listings from Afternic, but all these domains should of never made it to Afternic in the first place IMO.

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