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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 preceeding Landrush the dotMe 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 1st May 2008, 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.