We offer a 40 day grace period, and from there we usually send our delete command after midnight or within one or two days, but dependant on the volume of deletes this is not finite.
So, let's base the numbers not from expiry, but from the day we send the delete command: 1) REGISTRAR DELETE COMMAND 2) 30 Days - REDEMPTION PERIOD 3) 4-6Days - Last Grace Period 4) Next Day - Registry Batch Delete Process So you can Assume it should be about 34-37 days after our deletion before the name becomes available and roughly no more than 80 days overall after Expiry. I hope this narrows things down a little for you. Peter Ejtel Sales Manager Tucows Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Heather Peel Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redemption period Isn't it curious that in 5 years I never had a single client let a domain expire for more than a few days before letting us know they did indeed want it and now that we have this redemption period I have had 3 domains this has happened with (sigh). Anyhow, I do have a ticket into support, but this might be happening to others also. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how many days after a domain expires it should be released back into the namespace. I have a client with two .com's which expired Dec 20/02. I am still not able to re-register these for him even though by my calculation we are now on day 76. I had thought it was 40 days to deletion and then a further 30 day redemption period. Did I understand that wrong? The status in the whois shows these domains are PENDINGDELETE. I had hoped to be able to monitor the domains and register them as soon as they came available. However, if I have to check daily with no firm date on their release, this is going to become far too time consuming. Heather `````````````````````````````````````````````` Heather Peel http://thenetnow.com "Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
