Hi!
I've been looking on two very cool :cool: domains which seem to be on-hold by their registrars.
This is one of the two records:

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Domain Name: BIGSECRET
Registrar: SIGNATURE DOMAINS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.signaturedomains.com
Referral URL: http://www.signaturedomains.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Updated Date: 03-apr-2001


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When you look up this domain at whois.signaturedomains.com you get:

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No match found.


Register your domain name at http://www.signaturedomains.com/


What does that mean? The domain is on hold? Will it ever be released, even though it is really cool??? When? What should I do? Just wait? :bawling:
Please help, I'm very confused with this :confused:

Thanks in advance,

I posted a similar message a while ago in this forum. From my experience you best tactic is to be patient and check for the domain early every morning (around 6:30 AM EST). Just yesterday I was finally able to register a domain that I had been tracking for a long time. It expired in early May of 2001. I looked into services such as snapnames.com but decided not to pay for something I may not get. There is no set time on when a domain will be released though as I am also tracking another domain which expired on almost the same exact date but it is still not available.

In short, patience pays off.

jericho

Originally posted by jericho
Just yesterday I was finally able to register a domain that I had been tracking for a long time. It expired in early May of 2001.

I have been watching an early May expiring domain for over a month now. I happen to know(used a throwaway hotmail account) that his email is no longer valid. :dgrin:


I already own the .net, just waiting on the .com.

Life will be good. :laugh: :laugh:


:kaioken: <-- Me if someone snapname's it...

Hmmm, I'm new at this, how did you guys track all this information down? I have sort of an idea how I can look up this information, but by checking every morning, once you see it free do you automatically go to a random registrar and register the domain?

Would love to grab www.dcdomain.com or www.dc.com...

dc.com seems to have a nice page on it, so I doubt that the owner of the name will let that happen.

hehe Slade tell us what the doman is so we can be sure not to try for it. HAHAHAHA<--thats an evil laugh by the way.

Thank you
Jason Miller:homer:

ya i've been waiting for a domain that expired a month ago that was registered on namezero and never used, i guess all i can do is wait

Originally posted by Ihoppoet
hehe Slade tell us what the doman is so we can be sure not to try for it. HAHAHAHA<--thats an evil laugh by the way.


And I'm going to tell someone who ISN'T under NDA what domain I'm trying to snipe? ;)

It's a five letter .com of a real english word. I'll hold off for now on revealing it. Actually, if anyone was really interested in knowing, I'm sure they have already figured it out.

trend: If that domain was never used, you may be in luck, but don't hold your breath. It could be a really long wait.

You guys are dreaming.

I've been waiting for a domain name that has expired 2 years ago. It has been expired for 2 years now, and the registrar won't make it available.

:D

Aloha
also if it is a real word that is under 7 characters
chances are that some other country will have banks of computers doing seaches that try to get all english words in the dictionary on a constant basis
so ya might go to snapnames.com it would be worth the $50 or so to get it

but people do win the lottery

Different registrars release at different times. Network Solutions and Register.com hold on to them for a long time and then seem to release names in bulk. OpenSRS holds on to them for about 45 days after expiration and then releases them in a timely manner. NameZero keeps the domains and tries to sell them for at jacked up prices (minimum $50 and it shoots up from there based on "Appraised Value").

I waited from April 2000 until July 2001 for one domain I really wanted to be released only to have it grabbed by a domainscalper a few hours before I noticed it was available (which was just shortly after it was released). I waited from Sep 2000 until July 2001 for another domain with the same results.

The only legal thing on the internet worse than SPAM is a DOMAINSCALPER. Oh, and Al Gore.