Hi Guys,
It looks like your right about the holding period, i'm led to believe that its normally a 30 day period for .co.uk domains.
Its not really to much of a problem for me, unless you take into account the guy who wants the domain, who's on the phone every day asking if i've managed to get it yet!
With the variance of opinion between whois and netsol, could it be something to do with the update time? Unless i'm mistaken most domains take about 24 hours to be shown as taken, so maybe these two companies update their info at different times? I could be talking a load of rubbish, but it could be feasable.
Rob