Domain Name Renewal Qn

[SMHarman]

How long after a .co.uk domain name (owned by someone else) expires does it become available to purchase by the general public. I seem to recall it being 60 days?

The WhoIs is says "Registration Status: Renewal required."

[Mr_love_monkey]

I thought it was around 90 days, at which point it then deletes at (essentially) a random time.

However if it's a 'good' name, you have very little chance of grabbing it before one of the automated systems gets it, or the registrar themselves grabs it

After renewal required, it should then go to a pending delete status

[Jon M]

it's actually a bit more than you'd think.. (.co.uk anyway)

nominet (the .uk registrar) invoice you 7 days after expiry, and suspend the domain 30 days after that for a further 60 days..

http://www.nominet.org.uk/MakingChan...nName/Renewal/

basically, from expiry date to availability could take up to 97 days.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

However if it's a 'good' name, you have very little chance of grabbing it before one of the automated systems gets it, or the registrar themselves grabs it

Automated systems? DN sniping? How, where, who?

Originally Posted by s1lv3r

basically, from expiry date to availability could take up to 97 days.

Thanks, I was thinking of the detagged status of 60 days.

Diary note for 90 days time then.

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Automated systems? DN sniping? How, where, who?

Thanks, I was thinking of the detagged status of 60 days.

Diary note for 90 days time then.

A lot of places allow you to 'backorder' a name - to use their automated system to grab the name - it may be different for .co.uk names - it's really only .coms that I have looked at over time - places like www.clubdrop.com, www.pool.com deal with auctioning dropped names.

Just had a look through some of my stuff and http://www.dropcatcher.co.uk/ deals with .co.uks

pool.com also deals with .co.uk's - but be prepared to pay big time if it's a good name. often these things go into closed auctions if enough people want it

[Mr_love_monkey]

Incidentally, if anyone is looking at possibly making some money in the future - it may be worth investing a bit of money in the new .sc domain names - registration costs about 30 quid a year (sadly I don't sell them, so I'm not even plugging for new business ) - because the costs are quite high, there still seems to be a lot of 'good' domain names going - i.e. single word, brandable domain names - hopefully once they pick up in popularity they should be worth a fair bit - sex.sc is alread being auctioned on sedo - and has a fair few bids : http://www.sedo.de/search/details.ph...artnerid=13623

There's no cast iron promise that they will go up in value, but you never know...

[Tricky]

I wrote a script to monitor the output from the nominet whois record using Lynx (a dos command line browser) onto http://195.66.240.211/cgi-bin/whois....bleforum.co.uk

I then searched for certain phrases in the text and then got it to send an email (all command line) to my works email address which I created a rule on to forward the message to my mobile.

I ran this every 30 minutes (frequency of page changes at nominet)

good luck!

[Mr_love_monkey]

I've got some java classes that deal with automated whois lookups for domain names (I've been using them to check for the existance of all 3 and 4 letter domains) - would be very easy to change it so that it just looks for one domain name and polls frequently.... if anyone is interested, or wants them