Domain drop process

[Jugulum]

Hi, I been expecting a name to drop at Network Solutions, I knew it would take approx 75-90 days but it expired 102 days ago. Have seen loads of premium and trash names expire and go to auction at namejet since from Netsol. Any idea why this would be happening or have Netsol just forgot about it?

 

[Sufyan]

Read this article.

 

[Jugulum]

Thanks Sufyan, great article, but I already had an idea of the drop cycle as I have caught some domains with different backorder companies over the past few years but this situation is puzzling. It is like they are doing the "tucows" in keeping an expired name for themselves. As I said the name expired 102 days ago well beyond the suggested 76 days in the article, it is definately not premium, in another case from the same registrar for example "digitalsignage.com" a premium name expired on 04 May (19 days ago) and it has hit namejet a week ago?