Length: 1-10 years.
Original registrant receives email from registrar that domain is about to expire.
Length: 1-45 days
Registrant may still renew domain, but services (like email and hosted DNS) will stop working during this stage. Registrar is permitted to send delete command to registry.
Length: 30 days
Domain is held in RGP (Redemption Grace Period) for 30 days. WHOIS info will be deleted, and the domain will remain inactive. The domain can still technically be renewed by the registrant, although it may cost nearly $200.
Length: 5 days
The domain will be deleted from the registry in 5 days and may not be recovered by the registrant.
Backorder Expiring Domains
Many times a registrant will forget about or give up on a domain, ignore the registrar's renewal reminders, move on to a different project, close the site in the case of an e-commerce project, or simply not feel like renewing. Thousands of domains like this drop every single day. Some of them already have existing traffic and links pointed to them, and you can register the domains yourself using a dropcatcher like Pool. You may place the backorder at any time, but Pool will attempt to register the domain on your behalf the second the domain is deleted from the registry. If others want the domain, it will be registered by pool and enter a three day auction. Visit Pool for more information.
