5 day grace period refund

[affil3000]

When a registrar registers a domain name and deletes it again within 5 days, the registrar gets a refund. Are there any registrars that offer this option to their customers? Many companies register names to test for traffic and delete them to get a refund when there is no traffic: is this possible for individuals as well?

 

[fredlucas]

When a registrar registers a domain name and deletes it again within 5 days, the registrar gets a refund. Are there any registrars that offer this option to their customers? Many companies register names to test for traffic and delete them to get a refund when there is no traffic: is this possible for individuals as well?

Wow, I was just about to start a post and ask this exact question. Any input valued...

 

[seeker]

I believe cnobin allows that, but you pay a small fee (something like $1, cant remember exactly).

 

[katherine]

I read somewhere DirectI also allows but keeps a $1 fee.

 

[affil3000]

Maybe some domain reseller program allows this? Anybody know of one?

 

[Focus]

you should know if a domain is gonna have traffic before you register it, lol

 

[manueld64]

You get the domain, if you don't want it within 5 days, you unlock and cancel it and call up and get a refund. However, the domain goes immeditely to pending delete status with the registry and takes 5 days for them to release it again if you wanted it back.

 

[katherine]

Manuel, I believe that if the name is cancelled within the 5 days, it's deleted immediately and does not go through pending-delete again. At least I've seen it happen with a few names. Actually I was monitoring a few names, they were grabbed by a dropcatcher, they then cancelled the names (I guess they were testing traffic) after a few days and I registered them...

 

[Ed30]

you should know if a domain is gonna have traffic before you register it, lol

It's never quite as easy as that.

 

[Poker]

Dotregister allowed this back in the day and it rocked, until they cut me off for deleting too many names

 

[furca]

DD24 gave me a refund on a .in domain once. I told them I didn't know what I was thinking whe I regged it

 

[Dave Zan]

Guys, just remember that the 120-hour delete rule is only alloted to registrars
themselves. Registrars can opt to give the same or limited privilege to their
end-users or not at their discretion.