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Robo
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
 
2008-04-26, 20:57

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Originally Posted by scratt View Post
I have never heard that term.. But there is a period after a URL goes out of it's registration period that it cannot be registered again. That is to protect someone from snapping up your tasty URL just because you were a day or two late renewing it. Perhaps that is it.. As I said I have not heard the phrase 'put to sleep' before, but it would fit that description. Have you googled 'put to sleep'?
Yeah, all it returned is a couple punny headlines regarding Pets.com going out of business and general PC questions.
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