[dns-wg] IDN registration question

On 21 Apr 2016, at 15:51, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote:
> 
>> try registering the puny code version?
>> 	xn--5o7dx5d.com
> 
> Genius idea! Trying it...
> 
> Domain.com tells me that I can get it for .COM, .CLUB, .NET, .US, .ORG,
> and .ME but that sadly it is already taken
> in .CO, .ONLINE, .SITE, .WEBSITE, and .BIZ.

FWIW: 

shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.co ns | grep status
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 25390
shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.online ns | grep status
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55541
shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.site ns | grep status
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56114
shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.website ns | grep status
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 7099
shaun% dig xn--5o7dx5d.biz  ns | grep status
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64503

and:

shaun% whois -h whois.nic.biz xn--5o7dx5d.biz
Not found: xn--5o7dx5d.biz

This suggests xn--5o7dx5d.biz isn’t registered or in some lock/expire/suspended state at the registry. I can’t be bothered checking the other TLDs.

Trusting a registrar’s control panel is usually a bad idea.

Perhaps the registrar is getting confused by the EPP responses from the registry and translates them into bogus messages about domain names being already taken. Or maybe the registrar’s screwing up the outgoing domainCreate/domainInfo EPP requests?

I think you need to find another registrar.