Expired or renewed? I have no idea

[duskdawn]

Hey guys,
I have 3 domains in domainpricedright.com. If you are dealing with WWD, you know it is the official "asylum" site for all the dead resellers. I turned auto renew off a long time ago and it has a red "renew now" in my management page when I check it right now and it tells me the expiration date is TODAY .
However I found my names' status extend to the same time of next year according to whois of domaintools and namecheap.
So is my name renewed? When and why?

 

[dnb8]

Hey guys,
I have 3 domains in domainpricedright.com. If you are dealing with WWD, you know it is the official "asylum" site for all the dead resellers. I turned auto renew off a long time ago and it has a red "renew now" in my management page when I check it right now and it tells me the expiration date is TODAY .
However I found my names' status extend to the same time of next year according to whois of domaintools and namecheap.
So is my name renewed? When and why?

Hi,

some registars are renewing domains for they own cash and if you will not pay them, they park this domain or something, I had this situation one time.

 

[Dave_Z]

For .com domains at the very least, the .com Registry (currently run by the
Verisign peeps) autorenews an expired domain for 1 year and bills the registrar
accordingly for it. The registrar can eventually request the Registry to delete
it and be refunded within 45 days.

Most likely the domain/s in question indeed expired today (as you posted), but
they've been autorenewed by the Registry while the registrar tries to secure a
renewal payment for it.

To be sure, check your registrar's fine prints.