[UPHPU] picking up expired domains

[Mac Newbold]

Yesterday at 1:37pm, Wade Preston Shearer said:

> I have been unsuccessful at finding satisfactory details on picking up expired 
> domains. I have been tracking a specific domain for a few years now waiting 
> for it to expire in the hopes of acquiring it. It expired today and has not 
> been reregistered. Does anyone know exactly when domains are supposed to 
> become available after expiring? With the most recent ICANN changes, isn't the 
> grace period reduced to five days? After those five days should the domain be 
> available in the say way a new one would be?

It's been a while since I looked at the details, but last time I checked, 
there was a grace period (about a week, I think) during which the domain 
was required to not function, but was still able to be re-registered by 
the owner. Then it goes into some other state that was harder to recover 
it from, but I think possible. Then it finally gets removed completely and 
open for registration by anyone. I think the whole process took about a 
month, last time I looked.

If you look at the whois, at the status of the domain, I think there were 
magic words like "DELETE PENDING" or somesuch that marks where it is in 
the process. Last time I googled for it, I found a doc that explained all 
of them, the time frames, etc., and when you'd actually be able to buy it.

I'd recommend using one of the "backorder" services unless you're _sure_ 
that nobody else is waiting to buy it too. Maybe even contact the current 
owner, offer him $50 if he'll renew and transfer it to you. The one we 
were looking at was snapped up less than a minute after it became 
available. Becase of the delay in whois, its nearly impossible to time it 
right, unless you're a computer program.

Mac

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