Questing on pending delete.

[kosvam]

I was waiting for a domain to delete the next days, I checked that there is not any bid on snapnames, namejet... so I thought that if nobody else is interested, why yo pay $69 on backordering and not just wait to register it just a second after dropping.
But I checked the whois is record one day before drop and I saw these:
ICANN Registrar:ENOM, INC.
Created:2003-12-02
Expires:2009-12-02
Updated:2010-02-13
Registrar Status:pendingDelete
Name Server:
DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM (has 3,570,431 domains)
DNS2.NAME-SERVICES.COM (has 3,570,431 domains)
DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM (has 3,570,431 domains)
DNS4.NAME-SERVICES.COM (has 3,570,431 domains)
DNS5.NAME-SERVICES.COM (has 3,570,431 domains)
Whois Server:whois.enom.com
General TLDs: ***.com (on-hold (pending delete))

I can't understand why the date extended?
If nobody bids on this domain, it will drop on the expiration date (2009-12-02) or if I want to get this domain I will have to backorder it at enom? (Namejet)?

Hope there are people in here that know about this.
Thanks for your response.:blink:

 

[Kate]

First off, check with the registry if the name is dropping or not. Before it drops you might be able to backorder it at namejet.

 

[mrjohn]

Companies hold on to domains long after their expiration date. In theory, a registrar can just keep and monetize a domain indefinitely as long as they're willing to give ICANN its pound of flesh.

Just because no one was interested in bidding NameJet $59 on the expiry auction, doesn't mean there aren't folks interested in paying GoDaddy $7.17 to buy after the drop. In fact, if you add large-scale computational analysis to that theory, that's pretty much my business model!

I don't know if this is 100% true, but once a domain moves into "Pending Delete" status, it will drop.

From my own experience building a database of drops and auctions, it looks like NameJet pending drops never hits sooner than 30-35 days after their initial auction. For example, if you look at the upcoming drops in my database (click here), you'll see a number of domains that had an expire date auction in mid-January that drop in a month plus a few days. A lot of January 16 expirys will drop on February 21, for example. And these are mostly auctions that went unbid on NameJet.

Now, don't confuse the expiration date with the expiration auction date. Those are separate things. Most of those January 16 auctions were for domains that expired on December 5 or Dec 6.

So, there's a long lag between the expiration date (early Dec), the NameJet expiration action (mid-Jan) and the final drop of the domain name (late-ish Feb).