ok apols for double posting, i put this in the coffee shop section then thought here's probably a better place..
i didnt get my finger out to renew my domain, and its now in the redemption period. hosting company said it would cost me 150euro to renew at this stage, which is a lot on my wage. they said if i wait til the redemption period is up, it'd cost the ordinary 8.50, but anybody can buy it at that stage - obviously. my question is: are there people who trawl the web looking for domain names that have expired in order to snap them up and sell them back to the people who really want them? if so, would they have access to a database of domains in redemption periods so they could find any and all expiring domains immediately? or do they simply keep an eye out and do it in a less automated way? my domain is not an obvious name type thing that people might spot as a valuable url, so i'm thinking if there's no extensive trawling, then i might get it back fairly easily. my other question is, how do i know exactly when the redemption period will end and it'll become available again? if for example the hosting company sent me an email a while back saying "your domain is due to expire on Thursday 23th of February 2006 11:33:24 AM" Then would it be exactly 30 days from then that the redemption period would end and it'd be available? (and would that time given be my/the hosting company's local time, or would it be a time in california or wherever the Central End of Redemption Period Offices are?)
(that's not the exact time/date the email said)
thanks.
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