If I have a domain name that is about to expire.
If I let it expire how long does it take before the domain is made available for anyone to take
Example
The domain is to expire 2/02/02
How long before the domain will be available and someone else can take it?
The next day?
help

Dale R

It depends on who you registerd it through, it could take 40 days to 2 years for it to drop back into the pool.

I registered it through domain bank.

I guess my next question is what do you want to do? Keep it? Terminate ownership?

I was hoping to let it expire and then re-register it at a lower cost with another host.
Is there any other way to do it?

risky

Have you tried transfering it to another registrar?

You don't want to let it expire and take your chances with moving it. If you want to move to another registrar, go to that registrar and initiate a transfer.

You should be able to transfer without any additional fees. The transfer request adds a year to your domain registration expiration date.

If you let your domain expire - it may not be available for quite some time for registration again, and you may not be the one who gets it back when it does come available. When you let a domain expire, it effectively becomes available only at the whim of the registrar. For some, like OpenSRS, it's a predictable process. For others, no one knows how long it will take.

Is there some reason you've not simply done a transfer?

-t

yeah, what these guys said. Why don't you just transfer to the lower cost registrar???