Kim and anybody who might be slightly interested - the expiry date hole at 
Namescout still exists.

That's more than 48 hours.... and counting.

And another bit of trivia... as I was idly checking the sites of the various registrars to 
see if they had the same hole, I noticed that at least one hasn't bothered to transfer 
their own domain to themselves. Sez a lot about how they regard their own systems - 
but registration costs are cheaper at the one they've used ;-) - so there must be a 
moral there....

cb