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As mentioned earlier in this guide, you have an option on the length of time you want to register a domain name for. This often varies between 1 year and 10 years. Once your domain name registration period lapses, it is set for expiration. Here you will receive notification, well in advance, that your domain name is set to expire and you are offered the opportunity to renew the registration period, again for a period of 1 to 10 years.
As your domain name is set to expire, and passes the date of expiry you will receive a number of notifications from your service provider, as well as from ICANN, offering you, the owner of the domain, the opportunity to renew your domain. If you ignore these notices, your domain name will eventually expire and made available for re-registration by the general public.
As explained, there are several statuses of domain name expiry. They are shortly
described below as it is important that you as domainer knows what the meaning
of each stage is, and what you can do to or with the domain at that specific
time.
The Domain Expiry Date
This is the date your domain registration period expires. You can renew your domain name registration at any time before this date. The domain name remains your property.
On or before this time anyone can place a backorder on your domain in the event
you do not re-register it.
As mentioned, as this date approaches, you will receive regular communication
from your registrar notifying you of the expiry date and requesting you to
extend the registration period.
The Redemption Period
Once your domain name expires, and you have not renewed the registration, it falls into the redemption period. At all registrars this is a period of 30 days in which you are still afforded the opportunity to renew the registration.
If you decide to renew the registration, you will be liable for additional
registrar costs, and the renewal will be more expensive. Some registrars might
charge additional fees of up to $150 per domain name renewed in the redemption
period.
Within the redemption period the domain will still not be available for
registration by other parties. Backorders can, however, be placed on the domain.
The Pending Delete Status
If you still have not renewed the registration after the 30 days redemption period, your domain falls into the pending delete status.
Here the owner of the domain will not be able to renew the registration. The
only thing the owner can do is to wait for the domain to become available on the
open market and attempt to re-register it again, competing against tens of
thousands of other domainers waiting to do the same.
The pending delete status lasts for 5 days.
Finding Expiring Domains
If you are looking to snatch up valuable expiring domain names, you will need to obtain lists of expiring domain names. This will enable you to commence the process of backordering these domains to put you in the race and standing the chance of registering an expired domain name.
The majority of services on the Internet charge a fee for providing these lists.
There are also a number of free websites offering expiring domain lists.
The problem you might face with smaller websites offering these lists at no
costs are that they might remove all valuable domain names from these lists,
taking away the opportunity of finding valuable expiring domain names.
You can also visit domainer forums where often these lists are advertised free.
Finding Deleting Domains
TradeDomains.org offers visitors a comprehensive database search facility where deleting domains can be searched at no costs.
Exody are often described as the successful domainers’ secret to snatching
valuable domain names.
