I had noticed today that there was only 7,680 expiring domain names listed on Afternic.com . I thought this was a bit odd since in Tucows press release and on the AfternicDLSBlog.com stated nearly 100,000 Tucows expiring domains would be added to the expiring inventory.

Over the weekend Afternic/Tucows had noticed the issue and remove nearly all of Tucows expired domains. I asked Bill Sweetman of Tucows and Adam Gross of Afternic and Adam confirmed this.

Adam "Currently only a couple thousand of Tucows expiring domains are listed on Afternic and within 48 hours the remaining 90,000 + domains will be listed on Afternic?"

Adam repied "You are correct. Over the weekend, we needed to pull back names from the 100,000 with which we launched the prior week.  We’re working with all customers who were affected, and preorder and bidding activity is saved.  We anticipate these names returning to the site as normal tomorrow. (June 24, 2008) "

I and I’m sure many others removed "Watched" domains, so it will be wise to redo your work for the domains that you were watching before. If you were bidding on a domain already or had a domain pre-ordered you should be ok if you didn’t remove it. I just wanted to give the heads up on this.