Anyone who was in on the "$1 madness" thing last year who also submitted them to brandable platforms, you need to keep track of your expirations. Netsol sends out these "deactivation notices" that can group tons of domains that expire in the coming months. So its easy to not notice one in a group of 100 that is now on a brandable platform.
If it expires before you transfer you would have to pay at least $17.99 + $35, more if it goes into redemption, to Netsol to turn it back on.
Likewise if you get a warning from the platform your dns changed (netsol does this), you usually have 2 days to fix or it gets delisted from the platform.
At that point you would have to get the transfer code and transfer, which can take 5-8 days, before you can correct the dns thing and then maybe get re-listed.