I'm confused...

I want a domain, I ran a WHOIS on it, someone owns it, but it says it expired in 2007. If it expired, why can't I buy it?

My wife and I are having a baby girl, and we're going to name her Isla Rose Luhring. So we want to buy islarose.com

Here's the WHOIS result:
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=islarose.com

We actually own isla-rose.com, but we'd prefer no hyphen to match our sons site keltonleo.com

Any clue what's going on?

Hey Brandon,

At the bottom it says when the data was last updated and that date is 2005.
I'd say it's Easily not updating the whois info.

You could always try to contact the guy. There is no site up.

Ahh...

What on earth would put the whois results 3 years out of date? 3 years is an eternity in web terms. Yikes.

I probably will contact the guy. I'm sure he's hoping for something more than I'm willing to pay... But isn't everyone?

Hi Brandon

If you use godaddy and then click on "view underlying data" you get this:

Domain Name: ISLAROSE.COM
Registrar: GROUP NBT PLC AKA NETNAMES
Whois Server: whois.netnames.com
Referral URL: http://www.netnames.com
Name Server: DNS0.EASILY.CO.UK
Name Server: DNS1.EASILY.CO.UK
Status: ok
Updated Date: 25-sep-2007
Creation Date: 24-sep-2005
Expiration Date: 24-sep-2008

That's next month!