Reply #25: You're thinking of DNS propagation and that's no longer the case

[salvorhardin]

Unless your personal ISP doesn't update their DNS records in a timely fashion. Usually it's no more than 5 minutes for changes to be reflected in DNS records although caching at various stages along the way can complicate the issue for some people.

But that wouldn't apply here. GoDaddy would not have said the name was available if it had already been registered. And since the name was registered with GoDaddy it's their own database that was being queried. Nah, it looks like Leopold or his agents hadn't registered the domain name before they announced their new site. Considering Leopold's reporting I'm not surprised to see this kind of sloppiness, but nevertheless I'm glad they got the domain they wanted.