fucking namesilo
 

one of my mainstream domains expired for almost 2 weeks. i went to renew and it was going to this site is for sale... LOL heads up they listed on sedo b4 the grace period was over!

Ouch that’s rough

Brad

Have you heard of a feature called auto-renew?

it was not even 2 weeks expired

You did not answer his question. If you are familiar with auto renew you would not have to worry about this shit

i didn't have it on.

No shit Sherlock, I think we all figured that out. Why would anyone turn it off unless they're broke.

Dumbass...

Happened to me several years ago. The Oracle was telling me to set auto-renew for all the domains and whitelist/filter their notification emails so I always get them in time. Since these were applied, I haven't lost anything, and I handle hundreds of domains..

Send them a complaint!! NameSilo support used to respond fast.

yeah i had to whitelist the email. but the trying to get a premium domain sold :helpme:helpme i will put it on auto now

There are some legitimate reasons to turn off auto-renew.

You want the domain to expire.
You don't want to save your credit card info, in the event of a data breach (i.e. Epik).
Turning off auto-renew prevents billing when a domain is transferred and no longer at the losing registrar.

But obviously not the case in this situation

I never use use auto renew but still i did not lost any domain. But still strange how it goes so fast after 2 weeks, i though there is some rule around 60 days before domain goes on public offer.
I guess it's different per registrar.

Yes, the grace period varies depending on registrar. For .com, the grace period can be anytime from 0 to 45 days. Most registrars tend to have a grace period between 30-42 days before the status changes to redemptionPeriod, although I've seen the grace period as short as 7 days.

tl;dr ... If a domain is valuable or important to your business, renew in advance of expiration.

:2 cents: MojoHost is cheaper than NameSilo after this last .com price hike. Anyone that wants to move, we will concierge the migrations for you using our staff.

Brad

happened to me with godaddy as well I lost a good domain

So what's the domain name
If worth someone will buy it

Damn, every domain registrar I've used sends countless emails. I get one weekly not only to my account email but the admin email for the domains for domains about to expire and ones that are in redemption period. All starting about a month in advance to renewal time.

I think with the amount of domains I have, I get an email from them every week for the past three years lol

He obviously does not pay attention. Nothing new

I endorse this message

At least you should have got the expiry email warning.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh they are not buying it. they did do me a favor though... my traffic is higher!

Its up to 3 daily clicks from baidu :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

your daily adventure :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :helpme:helpme :Oh crap

I don't click on black gay blogs :1orglaugh

what?
:Oh crap