> Please be advised there was an intermittent technical issue with one server during the closing minutes of a few auctions on Saturday, August 2nd. You were involved in one of these auctions,

> As a result, in fairness to any bidder that was attempting to place a last minute bid, we will re-run 3-day private auctions for all participants. All bidders will be included with their last accepted bid amount.

> We will issue a full refund for the domain you won: (...)

> We assure you this is a very rare situation, and corrective measures have been put in place to avoid this happening again in the future.

I don't know. Technical glitches can occur during auctions, I don't think it's necessarily improper of them to repeat the auction after the glitches have been fixed.