Did you just wake up? All kidding aside, this has been a subject of much discussion over the past week or so on this list and a subject of a live reseller update.
It's also been in the planning stages over the past year. The proposal posted on ICANN's website is dated Feb 14, 2002. On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Saurabh Agarwal wrote: > Hello > > I received following message from DotRegistrar ... If there is some change > in registry rules ... domain renewal redemption period ... If openSRS has > introduced something which I may have missed ... > > >Starting January 25, 2003, any .com or .net domain > > deleted for non renewal > > enters a Paid Redemption Period of 30 days before it is > > definitely deleted. > > This new grace period is designed to give you one last > > chance to recover a > > domain: at this stage you can ask us to reactivate your > > expired domain for > > a cost of 17 (seventeen) DRYs. Please be aware that > > this expensive service > > (which guarantees a 100% chance of recovery) is > > based on fees > > DotRegistrar has to pay to the registry . As a less > > expensive option, you > > may use our DomWish domain recovery service at a > > cost of just 5 DRYs. You > > only pay if the domain is recovered. > > Thanks & Best Regards > > > Saurabh K. Agarwal > www.GetCyberHome.com > > >
