On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, at 14:26 [=GMT-0500], Heather Peel wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how many days after a domain expires it
> should be released back into the namespace. I have a client with two .com's
> which expired Dec 20/02. I am still not able to re-register these for him
> even though by my calculation we are now on day 76. I had thought it was 40
> days to deletion and then a further 30 day redemption period. Did I
> understand that wrong? The status in the whois shows these domains are
> PENDINGDELETE. I had hoped to be able to monitor the domains and register
> them as soon as they came available. However, if I have to check daily with
> no firm date on their release, this is going to become far too time
> consuming.
"PENDINGDELETE: The registry sets this status after a domain has been set
in REDEMPTIONPERIOD status and the domain has not been restored by the
registrar. The domain will not be included in the zone. Once in this
status all registrar requests to modify or otherwise update the domain
will be rejected. The domain will be purged from the registry database
after being in this status for 5 calendar days."
This is what VeriSign wrote about it recently. I guess (I am not sure),
that the last updated date indicates when the count for the 5 days
started.
A good time to try to register it could very well be 2 PM EST. Keep on
trying for half an hour at least.
In the past the 5 day counts I made were sometimes wrong for no reason I
could think of. So if I really want a name, I try at day 4 and 6 also.
You could also start a script on day 3, that tries to register it every
minute. I would do that if I wanted the domain very badly. [Now I will be
banned from this list and OpenSRS. Bye all.]
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