I am registering a domain with an extension that is not for the United States. Two registrars in the country that the domain extension is for say the name is taken. However, moniker.com says the name is available? Which registrar should I trust? What would happen if I went ahead and registered the name with moniker and it turned out to be unavailable? EDIT- An English registrar says it is available too.
I have no experience but if I wanted it would go ahead and register it. If it was not available they would have to settle with you would they not?
Instead of checking for availability, which may or may not be accurate, try doing a whois lookup - if the site is registered then you'll see the owner's details. You can use the WHOIS site in my signature, works for almost any country's extensions.
You never know. If the domain is highly unlikely to be available, then chances are a registrar has temporarily lost it's whois registry connection (Like when dotster told me that sexy.org was available last week). If it's a 2 letter domain in a ccTLD, it could be that some registrars don't have access to registrar something that short (Like GoDaddy doesn't register 3 number .cc's , but dotster does (Or at least this was true recently; GoDaddy's been growing their offerings). I had to go to dotster to buy a 2 letter .vc recently , while other registrars didn't offer them. And there is no harm other than a loss of time and having to deal with customer service/billing if you register something that doesn't pan out.