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When Does a Domain Name Really Expire?

A few years back I had a four-letter .com on my watch list. Decent name, nothing spectacular, but exactly the kind of thing I'd flip for a few hundred bucks. Expiration date came and went. I checked Whois like clockwork for about three weeks, convinced I was about to snipe it the second it opened up. I wasn't. I just didn't understand yet that "expired" and "available" are two completely different states, separated by a process I hadn't bothered to learn.

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Yeah, for anyone watching drops, checking the real status matters much more than staring at the expiration date.
 
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