the following is based on true events. names have been changed to protect the innocent.
so this person (bob) i know through a large website (google.com) i am a member of runs a website (example.net) for the community of the aforementioned website. this website is written from the ground up, is free, totally useful, everyone uses it, etc. btw the google.com and the example.net are totally member driven: no advertising. bob also owns the domains example.com and example.org, but the service is on example.net. recently bob bought two four letter domains, xmpl(dot)net and xmpl(dot)org, which are similar to example.net/example.org but much shorter and easier to type. here comes the
question: xmpl(dot)com expires at the end of this month. it would be ideal that bob own this domain to protect his name. because it is a four letter .com and semi-pronounceable, we're sure the domainer bots will catch it (and keep it) before bob can register it. currently xmpl(dot)com is a godaddy parked page, and whois pretty much tells me that it's a domain someone registered but never did anything with so it still has the default godaddy parking page. archive.org tells me that the domain was never used for anything in the past really, all i see is a 404 image.
1. when will this domain "drop"? the whois says it expires say, June 24th. there's a waiting period and stuff before it actually becomes available right?
2. because the domain is registered via proxy, and there is no way to contact the current owner, is there anything to be done before the expire date?
3. do the domain parking people grab pretty much every expired domain? if so how do i snipe the snipers? they seem to get them long before anyone else does, and i'm sure they make certain of that.
thanks. if this doesn't make sense just ask and i will rephrase what you don't understand.
so this person (bob) i know through a large website (google.com) i am a member of runs a website (example.net) for the community of the aforementioned website. this website is written from the ground up, is free, totally useful, everyone uses it, etc. btw the google.com and the example.net are totally member driven: no advertising. bob also owns the domains example.com and example.org, but the service is on example.net. recently bob bought two four letter domains, xmpl(dot)net and xmpl(dot)org, which are similar to example.net/example.org but much shorter and easier to type. here comes the
question: xmpl(dot)com expires at the end of this month. it would be ideal that bob own this domain to protect his name. because it is a four letter .com and semi-pronounceable, we're sure the domainer bots will catch it (and keep it) before bob can register it. currently xmpl(dot)com is a godaddy parked page, and whois pretty much tells me that it's a domain someone registered but never did anything with so it still has the default godaddy parking page. archive.org tells me that the domain was never used for anything in the past really, all i see is a 404 image.
1. when will this domain "drop"? the whois says it expires say, June 24th. there's a waiting period and stuff before it actually becomes available right?
2. because the domain is registered via proxy, and there is no way to contact the current owner, is there anything to be done before the expire date?
3. do the domain parking people grab pretty much every expired domain? if so how do i snipe the snipers? they seem to get them long before anyone else does, and i'm sure they make certain of that.
thanks. if this doesn't make sense just ask and i will rephrase what you don't understand.
