Buying an Expiring Domain

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Remie

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I was looking through some websites that rank high in some keywords I'm after when I stumbled upon a PR 4 domain that was sitting parked and dead.

I WHOIS'ed and, wouldn't you know it, its ownership expiration is in a few days. So I'm curious what the best way of going about securing a purchase of this domain is. I've never purchased someone else's domain before just to turn it into a link for my main site but I think I should start doing this (since saavy wicked firers recommend it).

I see that Godaddy has a Domain Buy Service and Domain Back Order. But this domain is not even hosted with Godaddy, so I'm not sure if that impacts it or is even worth the money they're asking for.

I've heard of domains automatically going to auction or automatically becoming available. Is there a way to know its fate before it expires? There's also the possibility that the owner has an automatic renewal (crossing my fingers their old CC info is expired).
 


If the domain isn't renewed, it goes to a kind of domain limbo for like a month or two, depends on its tld. Then it goes to release, if its current registrar doesn't grab it for itself, to sell on an auction.

To know the date of release, you can just check drop lists for the next few days.

When it releases, the surest way to get it is to backorder it everywhere: SnapNames, NameJet, GoDaddy, Dynadot. Namejet is the best among them. Let's say, the least bad.

Downside: When it's backordered, anyone now knows about it and starts thinking, why this domain is so good that someone (you) would want it. And increases the bids.

So if you think it would not be so attractive to anyone but yourself, you can just give a fuck to all backorder services and wait for exact release time, pressing F5 at your registrar order page. There were some cases in history that people could steal domains in an open registration even with backorders opened.

Alternatively, you can backorder in a sniping way, just minutes before release, or as close to this moment as backorder services allow.


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silentcrowd said:
@golan ... after the release, the who hosts the auction, the current register-er ? do backorders compete with auction bids?
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The current registrar may want to keep this domain for themselves. If not, the domain goes to release when all auctions, backorders and individuals "like" have equal rights for catching it. In fact, big dogs like Snapnames have much bigger chances.


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golan said:
If the domain isn't renewed, it goes to a kind of domain limbo for like a month or two, depends on its tld. Then it goes to release, if its current registrar doesn't grab it for itself, to sell on an auction.

To know the date of release, you can just check drop lists for the next few days.

When it releases, the surest way to get it is to backorder it everywhere: SnapNames, NameJet, GoDaddy, Dynadot. Namejet is the best among them. Let's say, the least bad.

Downside: When it's backordered, anyone now knows about it and starts thinking, why this domain is so good that someone (you) would want it. And increases the bids.

So if you think it would not be so attractive to anyone but yourself, you can just give a fuck to all backorder services and wait for exact release time, pressing F5 at your registrar order page. There were some cases in history that people could steal domains in an open registration even with backorders opened.

Alternatively, you can backorder in a sniping way, just minutes before release, or as close to this moment as backorder services allow.


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Good info Golan.

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In order to get an expering domain you need to use a service that gets it as soon as it becomes available. Services like Snapnames, Enom, or Pool are good.
 
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