A domain I’d like to use expired a week ago, It’s registered at https://www.ionos.com/
It might be a domain other people are after, as it’s something like mySurname.net
From my small amount of research, there is a 30 day cooldown period, and then another 30 days before it actually becomes available
I’d like to have the domain how do I go about it? I see there are some services that charge ~80 Euro to jump on it immediately when it’s available, but that doesn’t sit well with me.
The domain was only registered 2 years ago, and it’s likely that nobody else is interested in it.
How do I best go about this?
Contacting the registrar is worth a shot and could be your best bet. I recently did a similar thing except the expiring domain was on a pretty obscure country-TLD with only one registrar. They told me how long the grace period was and then I setup a script to check the availability every minute and alert me when it came up.
Probably not feasible with a .com or similar but they might be able to help in some regard. Edit: though having read about drop catching, that’s definitely your best bet if it’s likely to be sniped!