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Why has my Landrush Application failed?

In some cases Landrush Applications may fail before getting to the Auction/Allocation stage. This is because the DotAsia registry reserved names under various initiatives they have been running, including but not limited to Community, Government, Pioneer & Celebrity programmes. They didn't publish these lists or make them available to registrars to exclude from their available Domains. Equally, Domainmonster.com automatically checks in with the registry every time a user performs a search on our site and DotAsia continued to state that domains held within this list where available.

Reserved
The dotAsia registry decided upon a list of Domain Names which they deemed Reserved, but did not publish a list in full. Due to this, a domain may have appeared available but the application failed on submission to the dotAsia registry.

Sunrise Allocated
Preceeding Landrush, the dotAsia registry ran a Sunrise period. This allowed those people who felt that they had a claim to a particular name to apply for a domain, and provide documentary evidence to back up their claim. These Sunrise applications have been ongoing since Oct 2007, and some have still not been completed. At the time of placing your order, the domain may have appeared to be available, but has since been allocated to a Sunrise applicant. Had the Sunrise application failed, your Landrush application would have been successful, but unfortunately in this case the domain was allocated to the Sunrise applicant.

As information has become available about what has been held back, we have been instantly updating our records and in turn "failing" any registrations for these domains both retrospectively (With the a full refund) and on future searches.