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Something similar happened to me while buying a domain for my company abtesting.ai using namecheap.

I was trying to decide between abtesting.ai and abtest.ai (both were free while checking). Luckily I decided to go with abtesting.ai and got the domain right away. A week after that I decided that it may be a good idea to buy abtest.ai anyway so someone else wouldn't try to impersonate our company. However, when I checked again the domain was already sold...

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abtest.ai had expired and was auctioned off by the registry: https://auction.whois.ai/auctions/view/2541

It's possible that the registry incorrectly showed it as available due to its redemption/expired state.

Thanks for that info Ted. Anyway, the timing seems like too much coincidence. I didn't want to imply that namecheap was at fault here, I don't really know how the domain lookups are implemented.

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