grace period for expired names

[MMdomains.com]

names dropping 24 hours after expiry date why????????
Hi folks

Please can someone tell me when my name that had a expiry date of 09/28/2002 was registered by someone else 24 hours later. I was not given any grace period. Can anyone confirm there is and what the grace period is. I have names registered with enom/tucows and they give me at least a couple of weeks. But stargate just decide to let the name drop 24 hours after the expiry date.If i have taken for a sucker is there any legal avenue i can go down?

This is the email i got
???????????????.com expires on 9/28/2002. Failure to register ??????????????.com prior to the expiration date of 9/28/2002, will result in the loss of the domain name.

I then do a whois and see this.

Domain Name: ????????????????.COM

Administrative Contact:
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Technical Contact:
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Record expires on 09-30-2003
Record created on 09-30-2002

your honest comments would be most welcomed.

cheers
Martin
www.mmdomains.com

 

[morel]

I don't think that you have any legal recourse. While it is customary to give a grace period after the expiration, it is not a requirement.

 

[GeorgeK]

Which registrar was it at?

 

[GeorgeK]

Oops, I see now that it was Stargate. Not much experience with them, as the only times I had names there, I transferred well in advance to OpenSRS, my main registrar.

 

[Bob]

Registrars are not required to give a grace period, but as morel points out it is customary. I know eNom is another that gives VERY little grace time. I haev lost a couple there because of that. There is no legal recourse.

ICANN is trying to mandate a 30 day grace period, but I have yet to hear anything about that.

-Bob

 

The mandatory grace period has been approved by ICANN, but the means to roll it out is being debated and discussed. There are a number of registrars who are pleading hardship to roll it out immediately. It will be implemented before the WLS goes live however, so it's coming.

-t

 

[HLK]

Stargate is very inconsistent when it comes to dropping their
expired names.

I have seen them drop names one day after expiration and
also seen names that expired a year ago that have not dropped.

Makes no sense to me but it would be nice if they gave you at least a 30 day window to renew...