Mastodawn

What's up with expired domains being unavailable?

What's up with expired domains being unavailable? - Lemmy.World

A domain name I was interested in expired in January this year. It was previously registered at Squarespace.com [http://Squarespace.com]. Why is it still unavailable to purchase despite being more than a month since its expiry? Not sure if relevant but I checked the expiry date at: whatsmydns.net/domain-expiration [http://whatsmydns.net/domain-expiration]

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Fedditor385

Expired domains have “cooldowns” because this would be a security issue, if suddenly, overnight, because someone forgot to extend their domain, there is suddenly a new owner. This means, after the domain is expired, you usually have a grace period where you still have the chance to extend it.