anyone familiar with acquiring expired domain names?

lozina

Lifer
Sep 10, 2001
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A domain I had once registered expired then got grabbed by someone else out there who did nothing with it, probably just hoped they'd get money for it. Anyway a year went by and it expried again back in january so I'd like to get it back for some reason even though it expired I still cant grab it... how long do I have to wait? here's what WHOIS says:

Registrar: DOMAIN CONTENDER, LLC
Whois Server: whois.domaincontender.com
Referral URL: http://www.domaincontender.com
Name Server: NS0.EXPIREDDOMAINSERVICES.COM
Name Server: NS1.EXPIREDDOMAINSERVICES.COM
Status: REDEMPTIONPERIOD
Updated Date: 25-feb-2006
Creation Date: 15-jan-2005
Expiration Date: 15-jan-2006
 

Yzzim

Lifer
Feb 13, 2000
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Good question.

Out of curiosity one day I decided to check and see if valueamerica.com was still registered. It was, but it had expired. I checked every day for about 3 months until I went on my honeymoon for a week. Guess when it was finally released :(

What really pissed me off is godaddy advertised I could back-order it and then when it was available they would snatch it up. I purchased the backorder and tried to apply it to that domain but they said it wasn't applicable :confused: