Hi Darrin,
I wrote a small article on my site
http://travelingcheese.com
in the Domain Name section that in part says:
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So what happens when a domain expires? Here is the process. The process may differ by registrar. The first day after the domain expires will most likely be the first day of the grace period. The grace period lasts for days to over a month, while the registrar continues to have control over the domain. During this period the domain can be registered at the regular rate, under most circumstances. Next the domain is returned to the Registry. This is the redemption period. During this period the domain can be re-registered by the owner but at a much higher rate. An $8.95 renewal may become a $120.00 redemption fee. If the domain is not redeemed it will go into a 5 day deletion period. No one can touch the domain during the deletion period.
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The domain must go through this process that may take about 80 days to complete. Your back order will then fire an hopefully you will be the first to register the domain.
Keith
Darrin Chandler <
dwchandler@stilyagin.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:33:15PM -0700, keith smith wrote:
> I worked for Godaddy and we were told if we registered a domain that a customer had told us about we would be fired.
>
> I have not experienced what you have spoke of. I've registered a lot of domains w/o issue.
>
> For example I repeatedly debated registering burritoman.com because I just liked the name. During a 4 or 5 or 6 month period a ran a check on the Godaddy site to see if it was registered. I finally decided to register it and some had gotten it. My point is I ran maybe 10 checks over a 4 month period and later I found it had been registered just weeks before I made the decision to register it.
>
> Go to the GoDaddy or Wild West Domains reseller website and run a check.
>
> If you want the domain register it.
>
> Keith
Years ago I tried doing whois through a website and the crooks
registered it on the spot and then offered to sell it to me for a huge
markup. Bastards. This wasn't one of the big registrars. They didn't
even bill themselves as a registrar, just as a whois service. Some
service! Before and since then I just stick to the cmd line whois.
I've never had trouble registering domains through either GoDaddy or
NetSol. If it's available they'll register it for you. That's their
bread and butter. And they'll offer to register the same name in other
TLDs when available.
If you want other TLDs, you'd better get them then and there. That
you've registered a domain is NOT a secret known only to you and your
registrar. And you've shown more than slight interest: you're willing to
pay for a domain, and you have a stake in that name already.
The only trouble I've had with GoDaddy was with a recently expired
domain (someone else's) that I wanted to register. It had been sitting
expired for weeks, but was still within the "holding" period where the
previous owner could still renew. I placed a "backorder" with GoDaddy
and within minutes the domain had been transfered to Wild West Domains
and then put up for auction. Now this *could* have been a coincidence.
--
Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group
dwchandler@stilyagin.com |
http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
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