expiring domains

Is a domain name "on hold" bedore it expires or after?

[teeceo]

thats my question. does the domain go "on hold" then it expires or expires then go on hold?

teeceo?

[korkus2000]

It goes on hold before it expires. Usually for 90 days. Then it will spend six days in purge. The whois during purge will show an error that the file points back to itself. Then after that it is deleted. I have seen netsol hang on to domains 2 years after they have expired. There is really no enforcement that I have seen.

[teeceo]

what time do domain expire each day?

teeceo

[teeceo]

"It goes on hold before it expires. Usually for 90 days. Then it will spend six days in purge."

does it go "on hold" 90 days beofre it expire date ( like goes on hold 4-12-2002 and its expire date is 5-12-2002)? When it goes "off hold" is that when its expires or could it go on hold 2 weeks before it expires, then stay "on hold" for 90 days?

teeceo

[korkus2000]

It goes on hold at the expire date. The 90 days is after the expire date.