.co Dot co expiration procedure

[mayhemalex]

Hey,

Can anyone tell me the final status a dot-co registered through cointernet.co goes through prior to final release/deletion? It's gone from the suspension page to status inactive and now there's no suspension page and I believe the nameservers have been deleted since its not resolving to anything. Is there a Pending Delete stage with .co? I doubt too many people are gonna want this domain, but I don't wanna take my chances manually registering it, and would prefer backordering it.. does cointernet have a backorder service or should I just cover all my bases with the 3rd parties? snap, pool, etc.?

Thanks!

 

[Keith]

If it's at godaddy it will go to auction. Otherwise I would use domainmonster or name.com.

You place a backorder, that registrar places an order with the .co registry, the domain is awarded to the winning registrar (example name.com.) The bottom of the Whois will tell you if a pending delete domain has an order placed.