Well, whattaya know...
The expiration date for the domain is listed as Nov 10th of next year, and the last update of the record was today. Maybe there really was a registration glitch.
http://www.completewhois.com/cgi-bin...lcommunity.com
[DOMAIN whois information for SHRAPNELCOMMUNITY.COM ]
Domain Name: SHRAPNELCOMMUNITY.COM
Namespace: ICANN Unsponsored Generic TLD -
http://www.icann.org
TLD Info: See IANA Whois -
http://www.iana.org/root-whois/com.htm
Registry: VeriSign, Inc. -
http://www.verisign-grs.com
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC. -
http://registrar.godaddy.com
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS1.THEPLANET.COM 216.234.234.30
Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS2.THEPLANET.COM 12.96.160.115
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 15-nov-2005
Creation Date: 14-aug-2004
Expiration Date: 10-nov-2006