Originally Posted by donsimon

Registrar-hold was originally created by NSI to say that a domain still exists, but it shouldn't work. Basically it's just not published in the zone file.

Each registrar uses registrar-hold for different reasons. When a domain expires, we put the domain on registrar-hold, but if the registrant renews the domain it's off of hold and resolving in 5 minutes (in theory 5 minutes). If somebody spams or whatever, we can put a domain on registrar-hold so the domain doesn't work anymore.

That pretty much explains registrar-hold, it's a registry level feature, not a registrar level.

Donny