Hi to all! Below is a excerpt from the mail I got from snapnames.com today. Any ideas what we can do now? Perhaps negotiate with the current owner (ultsearch.com)? Gaby ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Your backorder for calmira.org is current and active. I'm very sorry that we were unable to obtain calmira.org for you. During day 35 and day 36 of the PendingDelete status, we send a stream of add requests to the registry at a pace of several times per second. As long as the name is in the registry database, every add request will fail. The instant the name is deleted from the registry database, the next add request will succeed, and all that follow it will once again fail. There is global competition, and neither we nor any competitor can guarantee acquisition of a domain name. In this case one of our competitors acquired the name a fraction of a second ahead of us. Our acquisition system is several times redundant, and functions extremely reliably. The change notification system depends on a complex interdependant WhoIs database system over which we have limited control. While the alerts are not relevant to acquisition, they are certainly important. Under the circumstances, I will offer to refund your backorder as you request. The refund for $69.00 has been processed [snip] ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- To unsubscribe, send a message to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe calmira_tips" in the body. OR visit //freelists.org