grabbing expiring domain 77 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 10 months ago | Thread started: Mar 19, 10, 2:20 p.m.

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• ukit

  Anyone have any experience w/ this?

  Like let's say you do a WhoIs search on a site/ domain that gets a lot of traffic, and you notice that it hasn't been renewed and in fact is set to expire in a few days. What would be the best way to get the domain in this case?

  Mar 19, 10, 2:20 p.m. – Permalink

• SteveJobs

  they usually get like a 30 day grace period from the registrar, but i think godaddy offers a service to snatch it up for you the second it's free. i may have used it for one of my domains a few years ago, but can't remember.

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 10, 2:21 p.m. – Permalink

• ETM

  Godaddy has a feature to watch and grab expired domains... for a fee. But really, I find the registrars hold onto expired domains for a while and often auction good ones.

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 10, 2:22 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Yeah, I asked a coworker who successfully snagged a domain he wanted and he said GoDaddy was not a good option for this - not sure why or what the difference is though.

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 10, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  The process is actually even more cumbersome than I thought.

  

  It seems to give a lot of power to the registrars but I guess if you were the only one paying attention and had some patience you could win out.

  • yeah sucks, huh? one aspect of the internet i've always hated. that and domain squatters.– SteveJobs1/2

    If you manage it right, it works fine. A lot of people just don't bother to manage it.– ribit2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 10, 2:26 p.m. – Permalink

• kingsteven

  snapnames.com. even when i've let my own domains slip into grace period it's worked out cheaper than the registrar's release fee to leave it to expire and use these guys.

  • < I got a few through snapnames– ribit

  

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  Dog-earMar 19, 10, 4 p.m. – Permalink

• pockets

  wait till it happend to you :(

  bastards

  • happens– pockets1/2

    what happens?– ribit2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 20, 10, 9:55 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Well, I mean, you get 75 days, judging by the graphic above. If you don't figure out you need to renew within that time...

  

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  Dog-earMar 20, 10, 10:20 a.m. – Permalink