NE1 ever do Domain Name Backordering

[Stifko]

GoDaddy has this feature for $15. The URL that I want is taken, but I can do this Domain Name Backordering thing.

How does it work and is it worth the $15 ? THANKS

 

[fr]

bump^

I'm about to do this. A domain I really want is expiring soon. From Go Daddy's info:

What is Domain Name Backordering?

If you ?backorder? this name, we will ATTEMPT to grab it and to register it on your behalf, if and when it expires and once again becomes available.

The low $18.95 backorder cost includes the registration fee, plus automatic monitoring and email alerts on changes to the Registrar, Status, Expiration Date, and Name Servers. Your domain backorder fee can be re-assigned to other names as often as you like, until you are successful in acquiring a domain name.

Please understand that a backorder does not guarantee that you will acquire the domain name being backordered. The domain name you are backordering may be renewed by its current owner and not become available or we may be unsuccessful in our attempts to grab it and register it on your behalf.

Once again if your backorder is not successful, it can be reassigned to another domain name. If it is not reassigned to another domain name within 10 days after notification that we were unable to acquire the domain name being backordered, the back order will expire.

I guess it's worth the $18.95 if you're basically guaranteed to get a domain name you want eventually.

 

[DanJ]

Originally posted by: Stifko
GoDaddy has this feature for $15. The URL that I want is taken, but I can do this Domain Name Backordering thing.

How does it work and is it worth the $15 ? THANKS

Basically if the person that owns the domain lets it expire you have a "chance" of getting it (because lets face it their's a likelihood that a lot of people might have backordered a name on a lot of different services).

If the person never lets it expire, then you'll never get it.