Hottamale

It's been over 2 months since my domain name has expired, so I figured I would wait until it's back in the pool of domain names instead of paying the fee after your domain is in the redemption phase. Well I figured it should be free to buy again by now but it still showing up as a taken domain. When I clicked on the holder of this domain I see my information (I did this on Godaddy.com by the way) but it says it expires Feb 15 2007, when it obviously expired 2006! Does anyone know what the deal is? I can't wait another year to get my domain name back! Any help is appreciated.

pizzicar

Take a look at this article called "How to snatch an expiring domain". It is a good read on how and why expiring domains don't work like you think they do. The total process can take up to 75 days to actually drop back into the public domain and that is if someone else has not decided to bid on the name - either hoping the previous owner or a new bidder will pay a lot for it - or to use it as an ad domain.

I pay a lot more attention to my domain name expiries now after reading this

edit: Just saw you said it was with godaddy - take a look at these FAQs on the godaddy site regarding expiring domains that are registered with them.

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H

Sadly it's worse to recover an expired domain than an expired drivers license.

Unregistered

Well I didn't actually register with Godaddy, I just looked on their site. My problem with that was that it said it actually expired a year from now! Oh well I still have a couple of more days before I hit the 75 day mark.

Rai

You should contact your domain registar's helpdesk to find out what your options are.

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