A domain at tucows has expired, where can i snatch it from?
I suspect you were not told the whole truth by those one or two Tucows resellers. First and foremost, every REGISTRANT with Tucows (not to say reseller) could access and even modify auth code online (at manage.opensrs.net). And transfer away is actually done "centrally" at registrar (and not reseller) level, so I'm not sure about their (latters') role in here.Often times the hosting company that resells Tucows dropped domains will not have a domain transfer capability and have no online resource to get the auth key to enable a transfer.
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I suspect you were not told the whole truth by those one or two Tucows resellers. First and foremost, every REGISTRANT with Tucows (not to say reseller) could access and even modify auth code online (at manage.opensrs.net). And transfer away is actually done "centrally" at registrar (and not reseller) level, so I'm not sure about their (latters') role in here.
Not sure what you did not understand.
I suspect you were not told the whole truth by those one or two Tucows resellers. First and foremost, every REGISTRANT with Tucows (not to say reseller) could access and even modify auth code online (at manage.opensrs.net). And transfer away is actually done "centrally" at registrar (and not reseller) level, so I'm not sure about their (latters') role in here.
@ whitey59 - Since I work for Tucows and manage the expired domain auction program, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could email me directly (bsweetman [at] tucows.com) with the specifics of the two auction domain names that you had a problem with. I am sorry to hear you had a bad experience, and I want to investigate what may have happened with these domains since the problems you describe are certainly *not* typical of what happens to expired Tucows domains auctioned via NameJet, and the vast majority of people who buy Tucows expired domains every day from NameJet are very satisfied.
For the record, all Tucows expired domains auctioned through NameJet are placed with myhosting.com, a Tucows reseller, and they provide excellent customer support via phone, email, and live chat. For help with domains acquired this way, visit http://myhosting.com/help/ ... and you can transfer the domain away to another registrar at any time, if you wish to.
The only reason a Tucows expired domain would end up somewhere other than with myhosting.com is if it was a Tucows expired domain that *dropped* and was picked up via a dropcatching services (like SnapNames and Pool) ... those could end up with whatever registrar the dropcatching service is using, and as we all know not every registrar offers the same level of customer service.
"This was one of those "perfect storm" situations, which I am very sorry about. As I suspected, what appears to have happened here is that you never received the 'welcome' email from myhosting.com [the reseller that Tucows auctioned domains are transferred to], which would have given you details about who to contact, next steps, etc. Not surprisingly, and very regretably, without that information you were forced to try to resolve the situation on your own, but of course you weren't sure who to contact, etc. I don't know why you didn't receive the 'welcome' email from myhosting.com, but the normal process is that everyone who wins a Tucows domain in auction at NameJet gets sent one of those."
Hi HOPE,
Most Tucows expired domains flow into the NameJet auction (http://www.namejet.com) approximately 25-26 days after expiry. Make sure you put a bid on the domain before day 39 (39 days after expiry), otherwise you might miss the chance to get in on the auction.
Good luck, and happy bidding!
Bill