[conspire] domain expirations

[bruce coston]

Another reason to hate spam . On seeing something like this , unless it looks both clear and certain - many will treat it as still more spam . 

--- On Mon, 9/28/09, conspire-request at linuxmafia.com <conspire-request at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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See "Domain Statuses" and "Domain Expiration" on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Network_Other for a rundown on how all this 
works.  Briefly:

At expiration, you get a ~40 day grace period.  Displayed expiration
date in WHOIS will get an _apparent_ one-year extension, but that isn't 
_your_ claim to the domain, but rather the registrar's, and it's vital
to understand that the domain _is_ actually expired.  During the ~40
days, you can still redeem the domain at the regular renewal rate.

Following the ~40 day grace period is a 30 day "redemption period".  You
can _probably_ still resurrect the domain, but it'll cost a lot more.

After that is 5 days during which the registrar is preparing to drop the
domain into the public up-for-grabs pool, _or_ to pass it to a
speculator.  You have no ability to renew, and will have to hope you're
faster than other people in re-registering it after the "drop"....



      
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