A domain I’d like to use expired a week ago, It’s registered at https://www.ionos.com/
It might be a domain other people are after, as it’s something like mySurname.net
From my small amount of research, there is a 30 day cooldown period, and then another 30 days before it actually becomes available
I’d like to have the domain how do I go about it? I see there are some services that charge ~80 Euro to jump on it immediately when it’s available, but that doesn’t sit well with me.
The domain was only registered 2 years ago, and it’s likely that nobody else is interested in it.
How do I best go about this?
Contact ionos support and ask what they recommend in this scenario.
Unfortunately, it’s entirely possible that some third party domain scraper bought it already and will try to sell it back to you for a premium.
Thanks, I hope that’s not the case, but if it is they can keep it, I’m not going to support those kinds of practices
I’ve been watching a domain name for years (15?) - it is a “funny prop from a niche movie” in the 90s that nobody even remembers and it’s length isn’t short etc., a name only a real nerd would even know (poilte cough). I’ve watched this domain pass from squatter to sqatter over the years, it doesn’t sell but keeps getting picked up as soon as it expires at the previous squatter. The dotcom domain registry system is completely broken in favour of crony capitalism.
The age of the internet really left an impact. My name has an accent in one of the letters, there is no way I’m going to give my kid a name like that, just because Computers. Would have loved to use name.surname more but yea both are common so there are thousands of us, never been able to do that.
Yeah it would suck. Happened to a webforum I used to be active in after like ten years. We also switched to a similar domain.
Contacting the registrar is worth a shot and could be your best bet. I recently did a similar thing except the expiring domain was on a pretty obscure country-TLD with only one registrar. They told me how long the grace period was and then I setup a script to check the availability every minute and alert me when it came up.
Probably not feasible with a .com or similar but they might be able to help in some regard. Edit: though having read about drop catching, that’s definitely your best bet if it’s likely to be sniped!