For Sale not resolving

[Diogenes]

Just wondering if there are any hard and fast rules about at what point a website will no longer resolve? When it is placed on hold, of course deleted. etc. If the nameservers don't change and the registrar keeps it, technically the website could stay up and active as long as the registrar foots the bill?

D.

 

[timechange.com]

Their WHOIS database has nothing to do with the info they pass to the root servers. Hence the locking of domains for non-payment.

 

[RON2]

Depends on the registrar and when they pull your domain out of the root servers. When many registrars, this happens the first day the domain is past it's expiration date (OpenSRS, Domain Discover, GoDaddy)