grabbing expiring domain
- Started
- Last post
- 7 Responses
- 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?
- SteveJobs0
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.
- ETM0
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.
- ukit0
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.
- kingsteven0
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.
- pockets0
wait till it happend to you :(
bastards
- ukit0
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...