So let's get back to the outstanding questions here.
There are two questions, although the first is a bit less relevant/important now:
1) How did Andrew.ca get listed on GoDaddy when it was restricted, and GoDaddy requires everyone to verify listings?
2) How the hell did someone manage to buy Andrew.ca only a matter of hours after this topic started?
I don't really care about question #1 anymore since I asked that question before Andrew.ca actually got registered, but it's still weird.
It's question #2 that's the real head scratcher. It's almost as if someone maybe hacked cira to register it... lol
I'm 100% certain that Andrew.ca was restricted before my post (and maple's), and even took a screenshot of it. It makes absolutely no sense to me how someone was able to register it just hours later. What are the chances CIRA just magically decided to release it hours later? Seems impossible, and even more possible that someone hacked cira or had some special kind of access that average people don't have.
CIRA probably didn't get hacked and it's likely a similar incident like the last where domains got released by mistake, but i personally haven't found any other domains that were released by mistake. I haven't done too much digging but domains like badger.ca fall in the same category and were never released, so it's even more odd for me because i don't see a pattern.
Anybody know what's going on here yet? Or willing to share other domains they spotted that might show us a pattern?