[Hidden-tech] Domain expiration explanation

[Rich Roth]

To answer the hanging question, highlighted by Elijah:

When a domain expires, the owner has over 2 months to renew the domain,
which has 3 phases:

1) Once your domain has expired, it will be in Auto-Renew Grace Period (for 0-45 days),
2) followed by a 30-day Redemption Grace Period.
3) At the end of the Redemption Grace Period, you will not be able to renew your domain name.
Your domain name will be released for registration by third parties.

Which means:
     1) Simple renew - simple fee, depends on registrar
     2) Redemption fee - $80 or more
     3) all bets are off, depends on the registrar

You can find the policies here:
https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#safe=off&q=icann%20domain%20renewal
specifically:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/renewal-2013-05-03-en

> From: "Elijah Gwynn" <eli at egwynn.com>
>
> Reading ahead in this thread, it sounds like the fazzi.com trouble got
> resolved. However the expired-domain discussion is still worthwhile,
> IMO.
>
> On 18 Apr 2016, at 22:57, Shel Horowitz wrote:
>
> >>That is a warning to everyone - make sure you have a back up email
> >>address which is NOT on your domain
>
> >AND communicate it to people like your domain registrar.
>
> If your domain expires, can registrars generally be trusted to either
> 1. Not immediately resell it or
> 2. Maintain your whois data?
>
> Some may do #2, but “communicating your new email address using the whois data on your 
> recently expired domain” sounds more like a last ditch effort more than a general 
> best-practice rule. If someone relies on their own domain for email and it expires 
> unexpectedly, they are having a big emergency

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