After non-payment of a domain name renewal fee, the domain goes into a state of pending-release for several weeks (at least many country-code domains do). In this state the domain name will no longer resolve to a website so it should be pretty obvious to the owner that something is up. They can still renew their domain during this time and if they don’t then it should be pretty clear that they don’t want the domain name anymore. If someone else then goes and registers the name once its finally released then I can’t see how that is unethical – and it’s definitely not “hijacking”.

thanks for depicting me as a villain without completely reading and understanding my comments.

I don’t make a living from “trying to grab domain names before they expire just to resell them at really high prices” as you so eloquently describe. My book is not about that at all.

Only 5 of the 85 pages of the book actually talk about registering expired domains – domains that first expired before you can try to grab them.

You cannot “grab” a domain before it expires. You can try to get it, after it expires.

And thanks to Garry again for making up a topic completely irrelevant to the topic of my book. He is a good sport.

Happy holidays .

John

Your title for this post is very misleading. It indicates the e-book is about domain name hijacking which is out right theft. Buying expired domain names, which I believe is what the book is about, is a perfectly legal and accepted practice on the internet.

Every domain name owner has the opportunity to renew their name if they so desire. I know I usually receive 5 to 7 e-mails beginning 30 days or so prior to expiration on my names. After the official expiration date the original owner has another 60 days to reclaim the name. Thats a total of 90 days the original owner has to renew the name. Its not like it expires without warning. If they don’t renew the name it becomes available for someone else to register. If they do renew, the name continues to be theirs.

If I see a domain name become available that I see development potential in why shouldn’t I or anyone else be able to register it?

Maybe I should make a you tube video and call it ” Leave my site name alone” LMAO if you seen the original Britney video your going to laugh at that one.

-Mike