Yizit — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:02:43 +0000

If it's a hot domain name your chances of picking it up on your own are next to nil. The larger Registrars either pick those names up for themselves or have contracts with one or more domain name "snap-up" companies.

If it's worth it to you, you can register with one (or more) of these companies and give them the domain name(s) you want and if they're successul in picking it up for you, you pay them a premium (fee). If not, you don't owe them anything.

From my experience, I've seen fees ranging from $50 up into the thousands of dollars, depending on how "valuable" the domain name is. Additionally, if they have more than 1 request for the same domain name, you have to go through a competetive bidding process and it gets sold to the highest bidder.

Personally, I think this is wrong but until or unless ICANN puts a stop to this or somehow limits what these scalpers can do, that's what we are all stuck with.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck!

--Yizit

dcabbar - PENDINGRENEWALDELETION.COM

kenai123 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:03:27 +0000

Yes, I have seen the same thing on some domains...
It appears that NETWORK SOLUTIONS has some kind of policy which auto renews all of its domains which are not renewed, at least for a few days anyway. The one I am watching did the same as you have discribed and now has the pending renewal deletion lable. I am not sure what is really going on here but it looks like this is done on all NETWORK domains which are not renewed. Anyone else have any thoughts?