Backorder domain?
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- mg33
So there's a domain I've wanted for years - mg33.com - because it's always been taken going back as far as probably 2002 when I first registered the domain mg33.net.
I just checked on it and it expired in early January of this year. Should I place a backorder ($69) for it to see if I can get it, or just wait out the 40 days that it's currently inactive until it's freely available?
- lvl_130
if you've been waiting for it for a decade, i would say it's probably worth it to just bite the bullet and pay the $69.
- lvl_130
oh, so it's not a guarantee that you will get it? i have no idea how back-ordering works.
- 74LEO0
someone say backdoor?!?
- fugged0
Best of luck man. That would be sweet if you scored it.
- mg330
I don't think the back order guarantees it. It looks like you could enter into a bunch of back and forth negotiating for the domain if the current owner goes in that direction. Fact is the last thing I ever saw it actually used for was some kind of electronic part, and only to redirect to another domain for it.
- hans_glib0
i tried this once but i think just the act of back ordering alerts the owner to renew and attempt to flog it to you at some silly price. It also seems that there are domain companies out there who have machines automatically scouring for expired domains and hoovering them up the micro-second they really expire.
Worth a try though.
- I don't think it alerts the original owner. Only danger is that someone else backorders it too, otherwise you are guaranteed the domain.ukit2
- mg330
If you're really bored and also really curious about how this works, read this.
- mg330
hans_glib - It's worth it to me if I don't have to pay alot, but I'm also wondering about the massive amount of work to change so much stuff out from .net to .com. My head hurts just trying to think about it.
- animatedgif0
"just wait out the 40 days that it's currently inactive until it's freely available"
It wont be, whoever owns it will have it on auto renew.
You'll have to get in touch with them and see how much they want to sell it for.
- raf0
I recently caught a domain backordered with GoDaddy, it's worth a shot and I don't think current owner gets informed about the backorder.
I recommend you find out about the path a .com domain goes through on its way to deletion, it takes around 80 days but it depends on the registrar.
- ukit20
I recently followed the approach in that article linked above. Signed up with Namejet, Snapnames and Pool and backordered on all three. Snapnames caught the domain for me, I paid $69 for it.
Not sure what I would have done if it went to auction. There was another bidder on Namejet, but Snapnames ended up catching it first.
- drgs0
i just placed an order, hehe
- SteveJobs0
I've had success with this using GoDaddy as well..
However, I tried it again with another name, but it was renewed days after expiration, so obviously it doesn't always work..
- ukit20
Once the name enters the redemption period it is a pretty good bet they will not renew.
When it enters redemption there will be a new "updated" date when you look up WHOIS info that is after the expiration. You then have about a month from that time until it becomes available.
- Nathan_Adams0
I also had success backordering with GoDaddy. The funny part was I had no idea that the domain in question was about to expire until I got unsolicited offers from dodgy looking emails to get it for me.
- mg330
Just won this domain in an auction. FINALLY. Patience pays off. My wife can't at all understand why I'm so excited to finally have the .com version.
- keewee0
Congrats man! had to look at the last post date before yours...Shat! you've earned it!
- utopian0
WAITS THREE ADDITIONAL YEARS TO SEE TO UPDATED WEBSITE
*WAVES
- mg330
sine, yeah, my initials + 33.
33 has always been my lucky number. It was my number in Little League when I was on the Cubs, because of a cousin of my dad's that was a left handed relief pitcher for the Cubs in the early 60s, who was #33. He died when I was a little kid.
And it popped up in so many other places as I grew up: the 33 proofreaders mark on the side of Rolling Rock beer bottle, the Smashing Pumpkins song Thirty Three, it was my pager code to other people back in the pager days, probably some other things if I think hard enough.
- utopian0
I just registered mgthirtythree.com