.EU expiration - When exactly they drop?

[CyberHawk]

I wonder if anybody knows the exact time of expiring .EU domains drop, which are in QUARANTINE status and due to expire. the day of expiration is shown in whois, but which time do they drop?

any answers appreciated..

 

[Kate]

.EU is based on the .BE system and I know that .be domains are dropped in batch every 1-2 hours or so.
In the past you could browse the list of quarantined .be domains and it would show the date and time a particular quarantined domain would drop but now the list is gone
I presume .eu operates in a similar fashion and the domain could drop at no particular hour.

 

[Damion]

If i recall correctly there is a 40 day period after the listed expiration date which the domain stays dormant and then drops the next day (Available).
Not sure though.

 

[smartpc]

Should drop 40-45 days after expiration.

40 days were domain can be renewed by the owner and upto 5 days in delete que.

 

[smartpc]

You may want to visit eurid and check out exactly, have been reading that the way the .eu is setup is different to .com but same as .be. Even though the domain may expire on the 7th of april it doesnt officially expire until the end of the month at the eurid, as the eurid system cant recognise domain years so it does to end of current month, after that I dont know if the 40 day .com rule applies, some registrars are dropping the domains on the set date though.

 

[jmcc]

You may want to visit eurid and check out exactly, have been reading that the way the .eu is setup is different to .com but same as .be. Even though the domain may expire on the 7th of april it doesnt officially expire until the end of the month at the eurid, as the eurid system cant recognise domain years so it does to end of current month, after that I dont know if the 40 day .com rule applies, some registrars are dropping the domains on the set date though.

How the hell this mickey mouse registry system was approved by the European Commission is beyond me. Most of the deletions to date apparently are due to registrars going in and actively deleting the domains on the anniversary of their registrations. Even so, the .eu has shrunk by about 50K domains (circa 1.9%) since April 5th. The interesting thing is that the country losing the most domains so far is the UK. That's also the country with the most front companies operated by the phantom registries. While the 40 day quarantine period may apply to domains entering the normal deletion process, these manually deleted domains may be available immediately.

Regards...jmcc

 

[smartpc]

A guy at the WW forum is complaining, he reg`d a .eu domain at godaddy on April 7th 2006, it dropped from his account on the 6th of April 2007, now godaddy want $80 to reinstate it, beware all .eu owners. "Even though officially he own`s the domain until the last day of the month"

 

[jmcc]

A guy at the WW forum is complaining, he reg`d a .eu domain at godaddy on April 7th 2006, it dropped from his account on the 6th of April 2007, now godaddy want $80 to reinstate it, beware all .eu owners.

I'm not surprised. Most real registries operate on a day basis rather than a month basis like the DNS.be/Eurid registry. So a domain that has not been renewed expires on the anniversary of its registration. I'm not defending what Godaddy is doing but I understand why they do it. Most registrars will probably do the same thing basing their expiry dates on the day rather than the end of the month of registration.

Regards...jmcc