How to expiring domain
member Arpit
recently found myself in the position he wants to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire next week, and thought not worthy chance that the person who owned it would not be renewing it. After consultation with the Whois registry of the current owner, a man discovered a pretty big area and the shark does not seem to be around anymore.
So I put backorder through GoDaddy for 0.95 I think that’s all I had to do. During the week that followed, I learned a lot about the process of domain expiry. Two and a half months and 9 later, I am the proud owner of a brand new field. A really very good.
This article will explain the process domain expiry and what you can do to use it to their advantage.
How domain expires
Contrary to popular belief, domains do not expire when they say they do. If the owner of the domain is not renewed by the expiry date of the domain, domain goes into “expired” status. For 40 days, the domain is in grace period where all services are off, but the domain owner can still renew the domain for the standard renewal fee. If a domain enters this period, it is a good first indicator that can not be renewed, but since the owner may re-register without penalty, he might just be a sign of laziness or procrastination.
After 40 days are up, the domain’s status changes to “redemption period”. During this phase, all information, Whois began disappearing, and more importantly, it now costs the owner an additional fee to reactivate and re-register the domain. The fee is currently around 0, depending on your registrar. When a domain enters a period of redemption, this is a good bet the owner has decided not to renew.
Finally, after the redemption period the domain status will change to “locked” as it enters the deletion phase. The deletion phase is 5 days long and the last day between 11 am and 14:00 Pacific time, the name will officially drop from the database of ICANN and will be available for registration by anyone.
entire process ends exactly 75 days after the expiry date listed. For more detailed explanation, read the article Inside the war room of a drop catcher.
Landing Domain
So if domains are available to the public 75 days after they expire, how to know your GoDaddy backorder is one of many other backorders from other people who use other services? The answer is that it is not.
So the adventure game “Getting in on the” placing “.
” Drop “is an unpredictable three-hour period in which the field is deleted from VeriSign’s database and returned to the ecosystem.
I briefly thought about trying to beat GoDaddy to the punch by manually registering my domain during the process of decline, but quickly realized that there are no fewer than three major services that specialize in hit much of VeriSign’s servers during the drop period. With its considerable resources and my measly Powerbook, there was no way to compete on their level.
So I decided to take advantage of services of all three major domain snatching firms in hopes that a) one will take my domain for me, and b) nobody else would be competing against me
three services -. Snapnames.com, Enom.com and Pool . com – all work similarly. They use a network of registrars to hit the Verisign servers at frequent intervals (but not too often to be prohibited) and snatch as requested names as possible. If you do not get herself to you do not pay. But that’s where three services begin to differ.
Snapnames.com
Snapnames.com (an exclusive partner of Network Solutions) charges you for your domain unless there are several candidates, at this stage there is the auction between the candidates offer. It seems fair enough. Snapnames is a bit of a newbie in the game, but with their Network Solutions affiliation, is said to improve their success.
Enom.com
not want to chance it with only one company, I also introduced Enom to snatch my domain for me. Enom is reportedly improving their “Club Drop” service for a year or two now is considered one of the top three. Their fee is only and they are in my neighborhood (Seattle), so I was hoping that it will be the company to successfully “work release” for me.
Here’s where it starts to be incomplete, however.
Enom claims that the higher bid is (beyond), the more “resources” they will dedicate The attachment domain. What the hell? How can I determine this? Does this mean that you are using one server and now will use 30 servers if you bid? Or you mean you’re using 30 now and will use 35, if you bid 00?
not know exactly what to do, I tried to bid several hundred dollars in recent days, but Enom requires me to send a fax to become a “verified participant auction. “Since I was home that day and only dinosaurs still have fax machines, I was able to increase its offer. Oh well, I thought if someone else bids higher Enom, will at least have opportunity to participate in the auction.
Pool.com
Pool.com is Scott Boras of domain name grabbing – brilliant but conniving agent that players (domains) love and team owners (prospective buyers domain) hate. Pool play with the power of the unknown in such a fiendishly clever way that I do not know whether to hug them or kill them. Here’s how:
pool is the # 1 company about the number servers and success go. You place your original bid and if Pool.com grabs your name for you, they send you an email telling you that I have been successful and that you are now entered “Phase 1″ of the two phases auction system . This is so whether or not you are the only bidder! Pool.com does not even reveal how many candidates there.
Then, Boras, and move of diabolical genius, Pool.com informs you that you have three days to put a new sealed bid. If the offer is one of the first two bids or within 30% of the top bid, you move to one day open auction bid (the “challenger” auction) for final control domain.
Grrrrreat.
So if you bid 0 and two people bid 0, I is not even to go to the final auction! It’s all about to me to be sealed bid, … whether there are even other candidates
Note: .. And another thing I forgot to mention is that before the name dropped, I I took all.net, ORG, and.info options (all are available) to have more opportunities than other buyers.
Persecution is
Just in time, 75 days after domain has expired, I received an email from Pool.com me they say, the secured my domain for me. Great. Of the four sources used, Pool.com is the one that at least wanted to deal with. But true to their duties, they finally best agent to drop and have just gotten me one step closer to my domain. They are A-Rod and I used the Texas Rangers.
Unlike the Texas Rangers, however, I realized it might be bidding against myself and entered a sealed bid of 2. I chose that number because it seems high enough, but not so high that I’ll feel stupid if I was the only bidder. I added another two dollars at the end just to edge out any other people potentially deciding to 0 as their number.
next three days were particularly stressful. I had no idea where I stood, and throughout this process, I have always had a sneaking suspicion that people in these companies are themselves looking for valuable domains. In other words, if someone suddenly offers 00 domain domain company will decide to snatch it up myself or decor bid “against you in it?
end of the e-mail from Pool arrived and informed me that he moved to the Challenger Auction. There was another bidder and had raised its bid for 2 to beat me. Not too bad, but I had no idea how high that person is ready to go. I had to decide on a maximum bid (proxy bidding a la eBay) and a strategy for when to put it.
True to form, system Pool.com is tender squeeze even more money from you, ensuring the auction does not end if there twice a day for the last five minutes. In this case, the auction time keeps extending for five minutes until no more bids
could try one of two things:. Offer higher bid at the beginning of an attempt to scare the other, or lull the other to sleep by doing nothing until the last 6 minutes. I chose the second method, since it is high time 8 am on Saturday … time when many people are in front of computers. I set four alarms for 7:45 am Saturday morning, I woke up on time, and place your bid for 0 when the clock strikes 6 minutes.
system automatically immediately lift the current bid until 9 and I was leader. Nervous six minutes, fifty browser refreshes, and a thousand heartbeats later, my opponent was nowhere to be found and the domain is mine … ready for immediate transfer to Dreamhost, my hosting company of choice.
I’m still not quite sure whether the person at the other end is real (although I guess they were), but the bottom line is that by playing every possible angle, are now extremely valuable domain have My reasonable amount of 9. It is valuable because I want to sell it or anything, just valuable because I want this
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