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Ok so. recently I had domains over at a Godaddy reseller that had expired. They were a .de domains.

They expired and immediately removed from my account.

although I still have .de domains in my account that expired back in june 2018 that this reseller is still reminding me via email to renew.

mind you after 6 months I can renew them without a redemption fee. (What's that all about?)

Godaddy told me that those domains that expired 6 months ago are a "FLUKE" and not the norm.

So I asked them what my options were now. Of course all they "will" say is your option is to pay the REDEMPTION FEE.

Well I read somewhere that .de has no redemption fee? so what's this all about?

mind you have hese 10 .de domains in my account that expired 6 months ago that to this day I can simply renew for the typical renewal fee without a redemption.

Why were these two .de domains removed from my account on the day of expiration and not these others?

Again GD rep say's it's a "fluke".

alright well of course I contact DENIC which is the registry for .de and they tell me that .de does have a redemption grace period of 30 days. in which no one can register the .de domain.

in which case I have two options to contact the current registrar to get the auth codes to transfer them out.

Of course I can't do this with the current situation for these .de domains over at Godaddy because Godaddy had placed them into REDEMPTION!

So the only way to get auth codes is.................................. to pay the $80 to redeem them and put them in good standing.

Slick!

of course they won't tell you that you could have simply transferred the domains out.

Denic told me if the domain registrar can't provide the auth codes. all you need to do is pay for a transfer to another registrar.

That registrar will have to contact Denic about the .de domain transfer request.

Here's the tricky part. unless you had your whois info public prior to expiration then you can't transfer.

Denic told me they would send the auth codes....wait for it. via actual Postal Mail!

What?!?!?!

lol.

They would send the auth codes via postal mail to the address associated with the domain prior to it expiring.

This way you won't need the old registrar to give you the auth codes.

so if you ever have .de domains expire for some reason and you forgot. just contact Denic. have them create a ticket. then pay for a .de transfer (not the current registrar you lost the domains at) then have the new registrar contact Denic for the transfer codes.

Done and done.
 
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The views expressed on this page by users and staff are their own, not those of NamePros.
For European ccTLDs - use European or even domestic registrars.
The only one advice here.
 
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And Redemption was set by Registry (DENIC) automatically.
It has no any relations to GoDaddy.
 
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And Redemption was set by Registry (DENIC) automatically.
It has no any relations to GoDaddy.

well this is what Denic said exactly.

"The domains XXXX.de and XXXXX.de were deleted by your provider and we do not now why. The domains are now in the Redemption Grace Period."

To me that's Denic saying Godaddy did the redemption not Denic.
 
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Key-Systems (German registrar, one of the largest in the world), their wiki regarding .DE:
https://wiki.rrpproxy.net/domains/tlds/de

Deletion Timeframe
1 day prior to expiration date
Redemption Period
30 days
 
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alright. thanks. So denic told me that GD should give up the Auth codes for .de domains that have expired and even gone into redemption.

if not you can request something call authinfo2 code from Denic but you will need to find a provider that has the service to get authinfo2.

the authinfo2 code can only be sent via Postal mail to the registrant contact on file on whois.

Imagine that?!?!

So say the registrar like Godaddy wants to play the "game" that "oh sorry! your domain is in redemption (because we put it there). TO GET IT BACK you need to pay $80."

What they NEGLECT to say is that you can request the auth code still from them. They legally are supposed to hand it over said Denic.

but in thee event they still won't you have the option to find a company online to get you the authinfo2 code from denic.

Denic said just Google.

"AuthInfo2 bestellen"

https://www.google.com/search?q=Aut...rome..69i57.1311j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


elitedomains.de charges 10 euros
https://www.authinfo-code.de/ charges 20 euros
United-domains.de 10 Euros
 
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The shortest way is to pay Redemption fee at current registrar... as I already said in another thread regarding Netim.
All normal accredited .DE registrars have RESTORE function.
 
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The shortest way is to pay Redemption fee at current registrar... as I already said in another thread regarding Netim.
All normal accredited .DE registrars have RESTORE function.

yea but the "shortest" way is the highway robbery way. $80 to redeem? meanwhile I have domains in my account. same account these .de domains had deleted from and registrar is still emailing me to renew them at regular renewal cost. why were these other .de domains deleted outright on the expiring day? while these have been in my account (20 of them) since june 2018? sitting there in my account not deleted?

GD Rep just said "that's not the norm. it's unique that those are in that status in my account. the norm is .de delete as soon as they expire."

They mark it as REDEMPTION even though they technically are in what Denic calls RGP Redemption Grace Period.

it's ok. I'm ordering an authinfo2 code request right now. once I get that letter in the mail I'll use it. transfer done.
 
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GoDaddy fees are abnormal.
~20 EUR Restore fee at Hexonet.
And ~30 EUR at Netim.
 
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yea. So I went with https://www.authinfo-code.de/

as they are the authorized partner with denic. more money than the rest but at least looks legit. and better than $80
 
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its true

you can transfer the .de domains
when you have the auth code
w/o help of your old registrar

auth codes have a validation frame

you can ask for AuthCode2
at hexonet its 20 euro fee
 
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