How to Snatch an Expiring Domain?

jayjaymoney · Mar 29, 2012

There's a domain that I want and it's expiring in about a week. How should I "snatch" it should the original registrar not renew it? How long until the domain becomes available for registering again?

Has anyone had a similar experience liket his?

kmoore · Mar 29, 2012

If its a valuable domain (with pagerank or traffic or short length) chances are very low to drop-catch it manually. You can try snapnames, namejet or pool.

If the domain is of no real value for domainers - you can try to register it once it gets deleted from the registry. To own the domain without having it dropped depends on the Domain Registrar. Godaddy or dynadot auction the domain if the owner fails to renew it. Some Domain Registrars will not auction and let the domain drop.

jayjaymoney · Mar 29, 2012

kmoore said:
If its a valuable domain (with pagerank or traffic or short length) chances are very low to drop-catch it manually. You can try snapnames, namejet or pool.

Here are the stats:
-Domain is registered with godaddy
-It's a parked domain. No content or anything. 0PR. So I'm guessing it's not really that valuable.
-Registrar's whois info is public

What do you recommend I do? should I just wait for Godaddy to auction it off, make it available again? I really want the domain, but I don't want to pay more that what I would've had to.

ADHD-Dude · Mar 30, 2012

Godaddy will take it automatically, and keep it,

I let a .info expire and now is on sale for $3k, the traffic it got barely made $10 a month

dynamite · Mar 30, 2012

$10 a month? I would have kept it. Blimey that's a 11/1 shot guaranteed. Even if a domain makes $10 per year profit, I would keep it.

kvmcable · Mar 30, 2012

jayjaymoney said:
Here are the stats:
-Domain is registered with godaddy
-It's a parked domain. No content or anything. 0PR. So I'm guessing it's not really that valuable.
-Registrar's whois info is public

What do you recommend I do? should I just wait for Godaddy to auction it off, make it available again? I really want the domain, but I don't want to pay more that what I would've had to.

It doesn't sound like anyone will want to auction it so just calculate 76 days from the day it expires and register it. It could be available before the 76th day but that's the standard processing time for most registrars.

Good luck

donttazemebro · Apr 30, 2012

60 day wait is ridiculous!

Nightstalker · Apr 30, 2012

Go daddy is worst in the expired domain case, they keep the expired domain. Symbolic was the first domain to be registered in the world. I hate them, godaddy!!

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