DynaDot: VariantExists

[ScottFish]

So what does it mean when Im on dynadot or any other registrar and it comes back with an error of " Variant Exists".

Does this simply mean a domain has alreay been registered?

[mulligan]

It means that the Traditional variant has already been registered in the case of Simplified Chinese, or vise-versa

[passengerpigeon]

for personal example, you can't go register the simplified 贷.com because you've taken the traditional, 貸.com, i think.

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by ScottFish

So what does it mean when Im on dynadot or any other registrar and it comes back with an error of " Variant Exists".

Does this simply mean a domain has alreay been registered?

Or, if in some cases there is another word that means the same thing, and you may not be able to register that version of the word. I have seen some where ONLY the traditonal Chinese .net would be registered...and the other 3 (2 .coms and 1 .net) would not register.

[ScottFish]

I ran into that a few times...i ended up getting about 10 out of 15 domains because of that.