The domain name you accessed has recently expired and therefore any services such as web hosting, email or URL forwarding that may have been active for it are now deactivated. As a courtesy we offer a 40-day grace period where you can renew the domain for the normal price. Once you renew the domain services will be reactivated within 24 hours. After the 40-day grace period the domain will go into a 30-day "Redemption" period where it can be redeemed for the normal price + a $99.95 redemption fee. Upon completion of the redemption period it will go into a 5-day deletion period. Once the domain is deleted it can be re-registered by anyone.
I have a few questions about this. Is this a registrar that is doing this or an independent company? It looks like a scraper site and not a registrar, but wouldn't there be an update in the WHOIS data if someone else registered the domain? Can you register a domain for just a few months? Is this something new? Is it a hosting company that does this and only does it for domains registered through them? What's the deal?
No <1 year regs, but I've seen some cases of fraudulent credit card domain buys where domains are promptly recycled.
Could be a reseller account, for say Enom or GoDaddy. Lots of resellers.
The annoucement looks to be the norm delete cycle.
Hope that helps.
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Q. What happens if I can't renew my domain name in time?
.UK Domains
Your domain will remain in your #*$!xxx control panel for 90 days after its expiry date. You will be able to renew it at any time during this period. However, 30 days after expiry, if the renewal has not yet been paid, the domain will go into Registry 'suspension' and its nameservers will be removed. Suspension will last for a further 60 days, during which time you are still able to renew the domain. If a renewal is not paid for after 90 days past expiry the domain will be deleted
All other Domains
Your domain will remain in your xxxxxx control panel for 35 days after the expiry date, during which time you can pay for the renewal. After this time the domain will go into a Registry 'redemption' status. In this status you will no longer be able to renew through your control panel and will have to contact the xxxxxx Support team to arrange for the domain to be taken out of redemption. The cost of doing this is £200 plus VAT.
Q. What is the "redemption period"?
If you have not renewed your domain before, or up to 35 days after expiry the Registry will put the domain into a 'redemption status'. This means that the domain is still registered but would have had its nameservers removed. The domain can be made live again, but this is a manual process and has to be done by contacting xxxxxx Support. The cost of getting a domain out of redemption is £200 plus vat. Redemption periods vary in length, however, if a domain is still not renewed in this time it will then become available to register again.
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It looks to me as if it's a registrar thing, not that the domain is renewed for a 35 day period.
