Redemption period

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TB Rich

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I have been looking after a domain for quite some time now, it expired back in April 2005, but it says it's still in the redemption period. From what I understand is that the domain will be deleted after 30 days of expiring, but it has been way over due since April.

Any insight on this? Is there something you have to do specifically?
 
It depends on the registrar but there is usually a waiting period before the domain goes into redemption. Redemption period itself can go 30-45 days but it can also be many days before the domain is actually in redemption.
 
Ah alright, thank you. So the domain should become available fairly soon to register within the next month or so?
 
It should be - but that depends upon the company at the same time. Generally domains take about 1.5-2 months but it can go longer.

I believe it can take up to 45 days to expire and then in enters into the redemption grace period which is another 30 days then you have 5 more days and it's available.
 
Well actually, a domain can take up to 85 days to be released. This information I just recently got from Godaddy themselves!
 
Very true, it's hard to tell when a domain will expire because different registrars have different rules. The best thing to do is backorder the name at some place like GoDaddy.

What happens is the domain goes into a Redemption Period. Then it goes in PENDINGDELETE for 5 days. After that it can be re-registered by someone else. You'll just have to keep checking the domain for the PENDINGDELETE and then it'll be 5 more days until you can register it.

-David
 
Hello,

The domain once reaches the expriy date the domain registrar allows some grace period for your domain so that you can renew your domain registration. Once that period is over the domain registrar move your domain to redemption period where the domain registrar would charge heavily to get the domain released for you. The domain remains with the registrar for the period of 60 days and after that the domain is made available by the domain registrar for registration.

Thank you.

Regards,
 
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