Something I've noticed when a domain expires...

[BinderGang]

When one of my domains expired from GoDaddy, for the next 30 days the Whois info extended the expiration by one year, until it hit redemption period.

This is just my experience with Godaddy. Do all registrars do this?

 

[accent]

Godaddy tries to sell expiring domains on TDNAM.com. For the first few days after expiry you can still renew it. Then comes a period of several weeks when you would have to pay an extra fee but you still can get it back. Unknown (probably) to you, at the same time they are taking bids on the name at TDNAM. If there are no bids in the auction then there is a few days period when they try to sell it for $5 + registration fee. All this time you could pay the fee (I think it is about $100) and get it back. If you do not get it back and no one bids or buys it it goes back into the pool. Then the tasters pass it around, but that is another story.

Edit-- you may know all this, but I am not sure what you are asking. the whois, I think, is always extended when the name expires, only to go away at the end of the grace periods.

 

[Dave_Z]

When one of my domains expired from GoDaddy, for the next 30 days the Whois info extended the expiration by one year, until it hit redemption period.

This is just my experience with Godaddy. Do all registrars do this?

If it's a CNOBI domain name being referred to here, they're autorenewed for 1
year by the authoritative Registry and bills the sponsoring registrar for that.
The registrar has up to 45 days to either secure a renewal payment for it from
its registrant or have it deleted and eventually refunded for the autorenew.

 

[accent]

CNOBI =
Com Net Org Biz Info

figured that out all by myself!

 

[BinderGang]

If it's a CNOBI domain name being referred to here, they're autorenewed for 1
year by the authoritative Registry and bills the sponsoring registrar for that.
The registrar has up to 45 days to either secure a renewal payment for it from
its registrant or have it deleted and eventually refunded for the autorenew.

You are awesome. I've always wondered this.

Do you know when they do this? Is it on the day of expiration, before, after?

You've already been much help, rep added!

 

[Dave_Z]

Do you know when they do this? Is it on the day of expiration, before, after?

You mean when the Registry autorenews the expired name? Day of expiration.

And you're welcome.

 

[BinderGang]

You mean when the Registry autorenews the expired name? Day of expiration.

And you're welcome.

Yeah. And thanks again!

 

[Kate]

.us works like this too.
When the domain expires the registry will usually show +1 year but the registrar data will reflect the actual date of expiry. So there is discrepancy between the two dates.

Here is an example with an expired domain at Tucows:
http://www.domaintools.com/tile-n-all.com
Note the difference between registry data and registrar data