Backordered Domain names

[Marty]

Does anyone know roughly how long it normally takes after a domain expires, before it gets transfered to a new owner, if at all ?

[AbyssUnderground]

I think you get 3 months before its no longer yours after you don't pay for it. Then it can be bought by someone else. This is for mine but im not sure if its the same for all registrars. You should ask them if its urgent.
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Andy (AbyssUnderground) (previously The Inquisitor)
www.abyssunderground.co.uk

[Marty]

3months had a funny feeling it might take that long... well hopefully the current owner won't renew it, its not even hosted anymore which was a shame to the community it represented.

Thanks for the reply..
Marty

[AbyssUnderground]

[hc2995]

say you buy a domain for 2 years, after the 2 years are up you get anything from 24 hours to 6 months to renew it before it goes back on the market :D
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[AbyssUnderground]

[hc2995]

well with some registers they alert you like 3 months before it expires (like godaddy)
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[AbyssUnderground]

[Marty]

Godaddy....

If your domain registration expires, we—the domain registrar—attempt to automatically renew it for you. If that fails, we send you up to three expiration notifications by email. Following the third and final auto-renewal attempt—12 days after the domain registration has expired—the domain enters a redemption period, during which you may retrieve your domain name for an additional fee and renew it by contacting customer support. The redemption period lasts 30 days.

One week into the redemption period, the expired domain—assuming that its registration has not been renewed—is placed into a 10-day domain auction, allowing prospective registrants to bid on the domain. The winner of the auction obtains the domain registration ownership two weeks after the auction end date if the original owner fails to renew the domain by the end of the redemption period.

Once the redemption period ends—and the domain has neither been renewed nor obtained through auction or backordering—the domain is deleted at the registry. The domain name re-enters the public pool of available domains, and it is no longer redeemable.

[Marty]

I guess after reading that iam looking at 42days

[AbyssUnderground]

Please try not to double post. Edit the exisiting post.

I suppose 42 days is a fair time to renew in. If I really wanted to keep the domain I would do it within that time. Probably very early into that time too.
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Andy (AbyssUnderground) (previously The Inquisitor)
www.abyssunderground.co.uk

[hc2995]

see, 24 hours to 6 months :D

(yes iv seen 6 months before thats a crazy long time but whatever.......)
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Where have i been? School got heck-tick, had to move half way around the state, then back... and then i had to change jobs, so iv been away for a while :P

[PsyDonia]

it depends on the TLD.
it is different time for different TLD.
so you have to read abouy it on icann.
or the countrys nic provider for that TLD.