摘要 |
A preferred embodiment of the present invention integrates a domain name monitoring and acquisition service (116, 118) with a registry system (110, 112). The monitoring and acquisition service can receive a request from a registrar (100) to acquire a domain name. The monitoring and acquisition service also can receive a pending delete notification from the registry for a domain name having a registration that is about to be deleted. The pending delete notification can be received before the registry issues a public dele te notification or purges the domain name, at which point the domain name is registrable by the first-responding registrar. If the domain name that is th e subject of the pending delete notification has a corresponding acquisition request received by the monitoring and acquisition service, the monitoring a nd acquisition service can request acquisition of the domain name for the requesting registrar.
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