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[websterworld]

I have my eye set on a domain that should have expired two days ago. this one is registered with godaddy.

a whois check shows "Expires on: 13-May-04"
today is may the 15th. when I try to register it: "*.com (already taken, click here for info)"

what gives?
do registers not work on the weekend? should it have been dropped already?

[pixd]

This should help you

https://www.snapnames.com/partners/s...eletecycle.gif

[websterworld]

Originally posted by interneat
This should help you

https://www.snapnames.com/partners/s...eletecycle.gif

so I may end up waiting 80 days?
why does it take so long? and can I bribe somebody to speed it up?

[pixd]

Pretty standard process unfortunately You have a good chance of not having to wait in the RGB period since a lot of registrars don't offer that, so that could cut 30 days off the wait.

If it's a very good domain name, and you would rather pay like 15-60 bucks for it then see it in someone else's hands, you should put a backorder on it with pool.com or snapnames, or namewinner (whichever looks best to you) to be safe, because every single decent domain name is taken the second they are available.

[aggidio]

Also to sometimes unless you go to the actuall registrar who registerred the domain and do a whois lookup there the whois experation date could be a little off.