Unable to transfer away a domain expired at namesilo.com

I have hardly ever let a good domain expire and I have never let a domain expire at namesilo earlier so this is new to me. Basically I just want to transfer away the domain. But I could not get an auth code.

Currently this domain has a status of Expired (grace period). When I click the domain to get the control tools it displays the following message.

Was it always like this ? Is there a way to get around this ?

PS - Even the push domain option does not work.

 

Nope, NameSilo keeps domains hostage to resell them. Make sure you renew them before the 25th day after expiration if you don't want to lose it.

 

this is the case with most registrar,

you need to contact the support, they can unlock the domain and generate a transfer code

 

Via https://www.namesilo.com/account_domains.php on your domain control panel, you can export a CSV file of your domain list, it has also authentication codes for expired names.

 

wow, sounds like a great idea. thank you.
am gonna try it now.

 

@Primary Names

Did it work?

 

@polymorph Never had to do it. The lowest .com transfer price was at LCN.com and when I begin to transfer, i got a prompt saying - "cannot transfer expired domain". Wow, never saw that before.

So, it made more sense to renew at namesilo itself.

 

Yes,, work great.

 

I tried this at another registrar. I was able to export a CSV file but it did not contain any auth codes.

 

I tried it. It failed. Either authcode given by Namesilo was wrong, or Namesilo changed it after requesting it, or Dynadot didn't really try to transfer the domain and invented an excuse, or was too late to start the transfer. Someone did an unethical thing. Now another domainer will get the domain, and keep it for one year. These are among my favorite registrars, but still at least one of them fail to their job correctly.

 

That has happened to me but it is an error of the format of the document that you use, try to open with WPS Office.

 

I use linux. I download their .csv file, and open the document with a text editor, like kate or kile. I can't imagine how authcodes can't be copy-pasted correctly.

 

is an error of the format

 

What kind of error? I mean if its abc123 , is it changed to abc-123, something like this ?

 

that happened to me, the reason was that the text editor removed or changed some symbols

 

I also had this issue recently. Upon checking closely, I found, the code changes to something else when pasted on Namesilo text box. So, I first pasted the auth code on address bar and then copied from their to paste on Namesilo text box. It worked instantly! HTH,