Question Re. Create Date vs. Expiration Date

[TestCase]

Just did a whois on a dn and saw that that the create date was Sep-xx-04 and the expiration was Jan-xx-09.

I've never seen - or at least noticed - an instance where the month of expiration is different than the month of creation. Is this a normal/common situation?

 

[fonzie_007]

Some registrars offer a service to "change" your expiration date so that you can have uniform expiration dates on all of your domains. I have never used this service, but I suspect whoever had this domain at sometime did use such a service.

 

[Earthian]

one way this can happen is if the registrant used ConsoliDate on GoDaddy to consolidate his renewal/expiration date (or , in case the domain is not at GoDaddy right now , he might have used ConsoliDate while the domain was at GoDaddy previously) ... moreover , other registrars might offer similar services too


info about ConsoliDate here
and on how to use ConsoliDate here


ADDED:

oops ... just saw that Fonzie posted right before me

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[TestCase]

THANKS! Have never heard of this option.

Rep given.

 

[SpareDomains]

I use this feature quite a bit, take the total number of domains you own divide by 12 months and advance them forward so your renewals are equal every month if you plan to hold them.