This isn't true for all registrars. My domain expired and it was re-sold via auction within seconds of its expiration. Network Solutions used to have a retentio

This isn't true for all registrars. My domain expired and it was re-sold via auction within seconds of its expiration. Network Solutions used to have a retention policy, they don't follow it if your domain has been bid on. I lost a domain I had owned since about 1997 this way :/