Expired domain that cannot be bought

The domain expired and there is no way to buy it

[explorador]

Hi all, I'm confused :(.

There is an interesting domain name that I didn't wanted at first... somebody saw it and bought it and then I found out that it was important for me to have it. Fortunately, that person DIDN'T renewed the domain, so it expired. Yes, the domain expired, so I supposed to be able of buying it, right?

I checked the registrar info and it says the domain expired days ago. There is no update or renewal. BUT, everytime I tried to buy it, it says I cannot... now the owner is a domain name company, how can you buy a domain name that really has no owner? (there is no new expiration date, only the old one, already expired)

[JohnS01]

Stu2,

You mentioned that you shouldn't give the taster any indication that you are interested in a doamin by not visiting the url or not doing a whois lookup.

Can you tell me what is the way of seeing if a person has done a whois lookup on your doamin name and for that matter how can the taster check if you have gone to that url. I am a bit of a newbie at this.

[explorador]

Hi guys, I have the update about this domain Im after. You are right... <Snip> All the info I read of do not, DO NOT and maybe dont... is true...

I got a backorder at my registrar to buy this expired domain. It still shows on the whois as expired. The 30 day period is over and still shows as owned. I know... now I have to wait some 15 days and maybe another 15 BUT....

The report of my backorder shows that the domain will expire after a WHOLE NEW YEAR.

So, the expiring info (public on directnic) shows one date, and my backorder monitor shows the same but plus one year. Like stu said, I move on... just wanted to share.

I also putted some info on the monitoring domains about NETSOL... it registered two domains I checked last week. Now are owned with link pages.

[edited by: Webwork at 1:39 am (utc) on Jan. 19, 2007]
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[stu2]

John,

Sorry for the late reply. I've actually been hard at work trying to develop a couple of domains. Believe it or not :)

If you go to the domains url (usually a parking page) the taster can monitor the number of visitors and what you click on. If you visit the whois, the update date of the whois record changes, so you can see if anyone has looked at your whois record recently. Any activity can be read as some interest in the domain.

There are several kinds of tasters. Those purely looking for traffic and revenue, and those cybersquatters who are looking to sell you your domain at a fat profit. For the cost of a years registration it's worth the risk of renewing the domain if there are any "bites" on the domain.

[lungau]

Maybe this helps you to relax a little bit more or will make you more nervous.
I wanted to register a Domain and found out it was already taken but was to expire in about 2 weeks. My registrar with whom I have my Domains registered has a feature which costs just $18.-- to go after your desired Domain. I did that and than the waiting Game started.
As previous poster already mentioned it went from
REDEMPTIONPERIOD to NEW:pendingDelete
then it somehow went to another Registrar and additional to another whois server.
Got then a message from my registrar that the Capture was unsuccessfull -
2 weeks later another e-mail that my desired Domain Name was successfully captured.
All in all it took aprox. a little bit more than a month till everyting worked out. Don't ask me how and why it suddenly worked out. I guess some of the previous poster maybe know more about that process.

[stu2]

Yeah! The tasters finally gave up on the domain and it finally dropped and then your backorder kicked in and grabbed it. The registrar you used are good at capturing these kinds of domains. The downside is you have to pay the fee upfront. You can't get a refund. You can pretty much only keep backordering other domains with it until finally one is captured.