Expired auctions and a shorter 29-day grace period are launching Monday at @unstoppableweb - read on for details and our full expiration timeline: Note that I sent out a similar post earlier this week that contained outdated details regarding our policy. This post contains the new official policy. We are shortening our grace period from 40 to 29 days to allow for expired auctions at Unstoppable. Don't worry, your domains are not in danger - you have until 12:01am ET on Monday 3/23 to renew any affected domains before we start sending domains to auction. Starting Monday 3/23, domains that enter day 30 of the grace period will be sent to auction. Domains already on day 31+ of grace on 3/23 will not be sent to our auctions. Domains that are sent to expired or closeout auction will not be renewable if they have any bids, to preserve the integrity of auctions and prevent gaming. Domains that don't sell at auction will be released to the registry and will be redeemable for a higher fee during the 30-day redemption period following closeout auctions. Soon we'll also be launching an auctions discovery and bidding interface at Unstoppable. You'll be able to bid on our expired auctions inventory, as well as inventory from partner registrars like Dynadot. Altogether, our expired domain timeline looks like this: Day -30: We send an expiration reminder email Day -7: We attempt to autorenew your domain (if auto-renew is on) and send another reminder email (if autorenew is off) Day 1: Domain is now expired and in the 29-day grace period. We send a third reminder email. Domain is renewable and transferrable at normal price during the grace period. DNS records and forwarding config are wiped, and Unstoppable's nameservers and lander are applied. Day 30: Domain leaves the grace period and is sent to 7-day expired auction. Domain cannot be renewed or transferred if there is any bid in the auction. Day 37: Standard auction closes and domain is transferred to the winner. If the domain has no bids, it will go to 3-day closeout auction. Day 40: Closeout auction ends and domain is transferred to the winner. If the domain has no bids, it's deleted, enters the redemption period, and is renewable for a redemption fee. Day 70: Domain leaves the redemption period, enters pendingDelete status, and is not recoverable until it is released for registration by the registry. ----------- ...