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66.3 Million Domain Names Registered
IO ERROR writes "VeriSign announced that 5.1 million new domains were registered in the third quarter of 2004, and that there are now 66.3 million active domain names, both the highest numbers ever. It also said that the percentage of domains registered to live Web sites has increased and country code top-level domains are becoming more widely accepted."
Well, this could cause some problems for those evil scripts...
What is the Domain Redemption Period?
The redemption period is a Domain Registry period of up to 30 days that occurs when a domain name is deleted after having expired unrenewed. Instead of just getting deleted and returning to the pool of domain names available for registration, the existing registry keeps a hold on the domain name in a what is technically called as REDEMPTION PERIOD.
*IMPORTANT PART*
During this 30-day redemption period, the original domain registrant (owner of the domain) is allowed to retrieve the domain name from deletion by contacting their Registrar. [Google search]
I actually own a name that expired in September--having forgotten to renew it even I am having trouble transfering it back to myself (through a different registrar)...so them must be some incredible magical scripts....
The fastest growing registrar happens to be GoDaddy.com, where I moved all my domains to several years ago.
You have to keep watching that bang/buck ratio in registrars, webhosting - in all things. You stay with one provider of anything too long and chances are you'll end up paying higher static prices for the convenience of not looking around at the competition once in a while...
Power to the Peaceful
I've used LowCostDomains.ca for a few. They charge $17.45 (Canadian kilopennies) for .ca domains, haven't had any problems pointing them to the DNS my web host (KGB Internet Solutions, also Canadian and great for Java hosting, though the name may former residents of the Soviet Union a pause) maintains.
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