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I mean, there's like 40 days to renew a domain once it expires. So you want to extend 40 days to 365? [1] The thing is, if you forgot to renew your domain, and

• AnthonyMouse 7y ago
  > I think 40 days is a lot of time to check your email and see 20 emails from your registrar screaming at you to renew... Apparently it isn't when so many people have it happen to them that there is a profitable business in registering the names right after they expire in order to sell them back to the original owners. And there are a lot of domains, especially for personal use, that you might not notice disappear right away. The registrar has your old email that you don't check very often, the domain is for a low-traffic site you don't check very often, it takes a while for you to realize it. Meanwhile I can't see any legitimate disadvantage in it at all -- what's the big rush to assign the name to somebody else without the original owner's permission? Also: > Some domain extensions do not offer renewal and/or redemption periods or offer them for different lengths of time.