On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Paul Andersen wrote: > > Good Day All, > > When a domain goes from SUSP to TBR it is no longer available for > registration by the old registrant. It will be opened for registration at > Noon that day. The old registrant *cannot* claw it back as it is known. > > To register a TBR domain name the registrar needs to send a TBR request > during the TBR period which is Noon to 6PM each day. During that period > the regular whois will show the name as 'TBR' -- the winner won't be shown > until 6PM.
good summary. Here is another. 31 days after their renewal date, domain registrations are cancelled and the domains are marked TBR (to be released). This happens shortly after midnight (eastern time). TBR domains become available for "TBR registration" at noon on the same day. If they are not registered during the 6 hour "TBR registration" period, then they are deleted completely and become available for normal registration. > Your registrar also needs to do some other pre-queue work like ensuring > that the status of the registrant is good. and hopefully checking that there are no conflicting domains at another level. > A lot of people tend to say that the system never works for them because > they never get any domain names. We here see quite a bit of interest and > competition for names; and there are 80 other registrars fighting for the > names. I don't think there are 80... but certainly between 10 and 20 that are competent in the 'hunt for TBR registrations' game. > If there is a specific question I'd be happy to answer. Ditto. And having some of these domain names should help simplify things. Knowing the date you wanted to register it and the creation date on the domain would clarify whether it was re-registered or someone _did_ get it in the TBR fight... -Tom
