The domain name JV.net shows available when you do a whois look up, but when you go to register it the domain is not available. The domain dropped in 2013. The domain looks to have been owned by JVM out of Korea. These 1 and 2 charater .net names got reserved in 2005 and in 2010 Verisign wanted to auction them off, they later decided against that plan.
Usually when a domain is reserved the whois shows that IANA has reserved the domain like with the following R.net:
| Registrant Org | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is associated with ~141 other domains | |
| Registrar | RESERVED-INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY | |
| Registrar Status | serverDeleteProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, serverUpdateProhibited | |
| Dates | Created on 1993-12-01 – Expires on 2015-12-08 – Updated on 2014-12-09 | |
| Domain Status | Registered And No Website | |
| Whois History | 172 records have been archived since 2003-08-11 | |
| Registrar History | 1 registrar | |
| Hosting History | 5 changes on 2 unique name servers over 9 years | |
| Whois Server | whois.iana.org | |
It looks like JV.net must just be a glitch in the mechanism of showing reserved status in the whois records.
what’s new?
glitch that likely goes back to day one – probably a programmers “test” domain for some kind of functionality that never got back out.
weren’t there some crazy “test” functionality programming things on some deep space probes and satellites that never got backed out as well ?
It happens sometimes like that. I hope the glitch will be corrected as soon as possible.
Jv.net will be a good domain to reg.
Thanks for sharing.
I don’t think the domain normally dropped in 2013.
Do you really think that nobody would have tried to grab a domain like JV.net with a dropcatcher?
IMHO the previous owner was likely “stripped” in some way, and for some (atm obscure) reasons, of the domain, and the Registry directly took it back …
It’d be interesting to know what really happened … 🙂
I was the original registrant of the name, back in 1998 I think, and held it until I sold it in 2011. I have reached out to the buyer to see if they can enlighten us on what happened and whether they might be able to recover it.
It may be a hijacking case, keep us posted.
Hello,
I like using godaddy for searching of available domain names. I come across this one or two times with really good names. It would show as available for registering but when I click on the select button it should say “sorry this domain is not available for registering.”