Chronicle.com.au was recovered from pendingDelete

[boppity]

Chronicle.com.au was in pendingDelete status 31/8/15 then was back to normal 'ok' status today. I thought this wasn't possible?
Someone may have alerted them to the drop. Also Netfleet updated their auction to no longer show the domain as being available to bid on, but Drop and DS didn't. Ausregistry drops list still shows it as a dropping domain (2015-08-31 15:36:36 chronicle.com.au)

 

[asantha]

Same as diy
Both of those domains were technically expired - but seems like it is possible to recover even after expired

 

[findtim]

i'd like to know the process of achieving this last minute renewal.
1) who do you contact
2) at what level is it achieved ? registrar, auda ?

it raises some interesting questions about what i perceive are the rules of a domain being unregistered

they probably find out its dropping by someone offering a service to grab the domain for them, as its to late for them to learn about the dropping system, then maybe they contact the registrar and pay some fee to SAVE the domain from going to drops ?
just speculation.

i have provided this service of catching domains for clients via drops, eg bidding for them, then COR'ing straight away back to them, its been rare as when i have done it i didn't even know they owned them !
the only reason i picked it up is i did a whois as i wanted the name and found out it was a clients undeveloped domain, so to be fair i phoned them so they instructed me to provide that service.

i think there are a few businesses that do it FULL TIME.

tim

 

[asantha]

i'd like to know the process of achieving this last minute renewal.
1) who do you contact
2) at what level is it achieved ? registrar, auda ?

sorry Tim - this service is available only for friends and family ....

 

[Erwin]

How very interesting.. I thought pending delete meant no one could recoup the name even if they wanted to..

 

[asantha]

How very interesting.. I thought pending delete meant no one could recoup the name even if they wanted to..

No they can, by updating their details- but not after it expired- not when in drop

That is how it used to be I guess, may not anymore for some