understand the policies on an expiring domain are incredibly strange. the registry will automatically renew the domain for another year, and give the registrar 45 days to make it active. after that, the registry themselves has a redemption period, after that the domain is released.
in the meantime, your backorder notifies you of the extra time, you panic, confusion ensues, and frustration inevitably sets in, until you get that mystery notice later letting you know of the successful capture.
i'm in biz. i won't say how, but it's very interesting reading people's horror/confusion/"the registrar ate my domain" stories.
Read your TOS. You get up to 12 days pasty expiry before you have to pay anything more than your renewal rate. If you don't respond to the more than six emails you receive as the domain comes to, reaches, and passes its expiration date, you have noone to blame but yourself.
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understand the policies on an expiring domain are incredibly strange. the registry will automatically renew the domain for another year, and give the registrar 45 days to make it active. after that, the registry themselves has a redemption period, after that the domain is released. in the meantime, your backorder notifies you of the extra time, you panic, confusion ensues, and frustration inevitably sets in, until you get that mystery notice later letting you know of the successful capture. i'm in biz. i won't say how, but it's very interesting reading people's horror/confusion/"the registrar ate my domain" stories.
Read your TOS. You get up to 12 days pasty expiry before you have to pay anything more than your renewal rate. If you don't respond to the more than six emails you receive as the domain comes to, reaches, and passes its expiration date, you have noone to blame but yourself.