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A strange thing happened today when I registered a domain.

I used some new software to register domain A, just to see if it was working ok, the email was sent and I waited for the response from nominet, after about 30 minutes I started to think either it hadn't worked or there was a delay on Nominets end.

So I registered a different domain, domain B, by hand via a regular email to confirm the delay. However, about 1 second later I got the acceptance email saying domain B was registered.

I naturally asumed the software was at fault with the first one, until another 30 minutes later I received the acceptance email for domain A.:confused:

Has anyone else seen this where 1 domain is delayed and another not??


Paul




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Whenever this has happened to me it's been all or nothing - so all registrations delayed.

Maybe there was a problem with your incoming mail server and it was held in a queue at Nominet before being resent later.

What is the timestamp on the delayed email - is it delayed or shortly after sending?
 
i too have had this happen.

i also had the following happen.

requested a name, waited 30 mins.. nothing... so requested a diff one and got that with 30 secs.

so i requested the first name again and 30 seconds later i got an email all regged fine.

then about 1-2 hours later got an email saying i could not register the first email becuase it was taken (by me), [ i assumed that this email was a response to my first request as it took so long]

i think some names just get stuck in limbo for some reason.

i check the whois several times so i am 99% sure its not a result of slow emails.
 
Sounds like they may have a sort of multiple queue system.


E.g. (bear in mind this is all just imagination)
So not just one long queue but first lot of requests go to first queue.
Second lot to second queue.
Third - third queue etc

Each request gets timestamp.
First queue gets processed simultaneously to others (although it started first)

If by the time first queue finishes processing, then any domain processed in second queue that didn't exist in first queue - gets registered.

What may have happened in this (imaginary) scenario, is that queue number 23 or whatever that your first request went to may have timed out or not finished with some other error, thereby losing that registration request altogether.

Next registration request gets there first.

Or, to explain your error message, first queue doesn't time out but goes on go slow, and in order for that queue not to slow down the whole process, the lock comes off domains for the next queue and they get processed first.

Eventually when first queue gets processed, it has been beaten by later ones, but continues anyway in case there are some domains in it that weren't subsequently repeatedly asked for.

Make sense?

-aqls-

I live in my own little world . . .
 
If you used some new software it could be that your ISP blocked the outgoing email. I read a report a few days ago that IPS were checking more and more emails for spam nowadays - just a thought
 
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