Luke, I agree with you. It seems like you might have been hosed by spry.com.

According to their site, they're reselling enom.com, which is the registrar we use, and we've found them to be *very* reliable... and we've recently found that domains are fully resolving less than 10 minutes after registering, so I don't think there is much delay any more in registering domains with whois.sc.

If you are doing any sort of volume in domain names, I highly recommend getting an Enom reseller account. You have to prepay for 100 domains to start, I think, but service is stellar, and you get free rock-solid DNS in the deal.

I've also heard good things about GoDaddy, but for whatever reason, I've always liked enom better, particularly if we're reselling domain registration for our hosting customers.