Expiration date reversed

How does this happen?

[hannamyluv]

A few weeks ago, I came across a great domain, by accident, two days after the owner failed to renew it by the expiration date. I immeadiatly took steps to see if I could get it when it became avaliable.

Much to my dismay, the next day, the expiration date showed that it was renewed, as in the expiration date was now a year from now.

Then yesterday, I recieved notice that the staus of the domain had changed. That the expiration date had gone back to the expiration of a few weeks ago (and to my delight is now in redemption period).

How can this happen? Or is it normal and I am so not paying attention that I just had not seen it before?

[nativenewyorker]

Many domains that expire and go into "Register-Hold" status will show a temporary one year extension. If this domain has any backlinks or is a popular keyword (read valuable), place multiple drop orders with different companies and be prepared to bid high after the domain is caught.

[Webwork]

Normal.

[davezan]

The com, net, org, info, and biz Registries autorenew an expired domain for 1 year and charge the sponsoring registrar accordingly for it. However, the registrar can request the Registry to delete the domain anytime and get a credit back.

2 possibilities:

1. The registrar asked the Registry to delete it soon after autorenewing it. I found one registrar whose grace period is between 1-5 days, while another's is 0.

2. The domain name might have been autorenewed by the registrar, but its registrant "politely requested" deletion of it because s/he didn't want it anymore.

Oh well, at least it's on RGP like you say. You know what to do next. :)