Registration status: No longer required

[woopwoop]

From what I gather the registration status "No longer required" means that current registrant wil not be billed again in future for the domain, but that the domain will go through the same process (expire, be suspended, pending delete, then available).

But I am wondering if this status is because of a very deliberate action from the registrant or if it could be the action of the registrar.

To clarify I've seen a nice generic that will expire in a few days and that has the status "No longer required". I am not so sure that the registrant would have done this on purpose. If it is a deliberate move by the owner/registrant I'd contact them and offer them a grand?!.
My other thought is that they may have forgotten to pay their fees for registration or other services and the registrar may have moved the status to this (the current registrant may not be aware of the status).

Does anyone have any experience of this. Maybe the status and/or contacting an owner and offering them ££ to transfer before expiry?

 

[wb]

Strategy would depend on how good the domain is and how much it's really worth? PM if you prefer, but if it's unlikely the person would want to drop it then the chances are they may renew it when you tell them it's expired and won't be interested in selling cheap.

On the other hand, if it's only worth a grand then you may have more luck letting it drop and offering that to the catcher if you want to buy it

 

[Systreg]

I think it's an deliberate by the current owner, in my Nominet registrar account, in the web domain manager, there are check boxes next to each domain and at the top there are buttons to renew, modify etc, and one called called, "mark not required", I assume clicking that one sets the domain to show "no longer required".

There's a name dropping today that has been registered to a company since 1998, they are still active according to companies house, but their domain name is marked as no longer required.

 

[woopwoop]

Strategy would depend on how good the domain is and how much it's really worth? PM if you prefer, but if it's unlikely the person would want to drop it then the chances are they may renew it when you tell them it's expired and won't be interested in selling cheap.

On the other hand, if it's only worth a grand then you may have more luck letting it drop and offering that to the catcher if you want to buy it

I'd say it's worth about 5k maybe more (just cashflow and also offering the right price that it's considered/accepted and maybe even being careful of spooking the owner and offering too much!). Would be great to get it for a grand (I can dream!).

I think it's an deliberate by the current owner, in my Nominet registrar account, in the web domain manager, there are check boxes next to each domain and at the top there are buttons to renew, modify etc, and one called called, "mark not required", I assume clicking that one sets the domain to show "no longer required".

I've heard of registrars sometimes tinkering with clients domains without the registrant prompting the action - I'm not sure if it would be unusual in this case (with this particular status).

There's a name dropping today that has been registered to a company since 1998, they are still active according to companies house, but their domain name is marked as no longer required.

Will be interesting to see what happens with it? They may be a small company - closing/fading out, or with little activity. Or maybe they're expecting to re-register it after expiry.

The name that I've got my eye on is while off expiring but I'm sure it'll be on catchers' lists...

 

[Systreg]

Will be interesting to see what happens with it? They may be a small company - closing/fading out, or with little activity. Or maybe they're expecting to re-register it after expiry.

They are operating from a different domain name now, a .com, their current registrar of that .com name is the same registrar of the .co.uk name. Looks like the dropping name was last used in 2005 according to the archive.org site, and the .com was regged in 2003, they also have another .co.uk that redirects to the .com, so probably deliberate on their part that thy are letting the name drop today.

 

[woopwoop]

I've been watching a generic name that has gone from:

"no longer required" (and a registrar listed)

to

"renewal required" (and "no registrar listed")

I didn't really get a clear understanding about if all of these changes are actioned by the registrant or could be done by the registrar independently.

Does anyone know what might be happening here?
Is it looking like the registrant?
1. Hasn't paid their bill?
2. Is unreachable?
3. Is trying to get rid of the domain?
4. Is trying to transfer the domain to themselves/someone else?
5. If someone is trying to sneak the domain out the backdoor of a company to themself !!!

I recently contacted them and was told that someone from the correct dept would call me back about it... Still waiting.

 

[wb]

Who was the registrar, 1&1? I've noticed in the past that some names that have been on their tag have been 'detagged', which appears to be due to unpaid/unwanted renewal or uncontactable registrant.

I'm basing this on a client who had a domain they weren't using detagged - the email associated with the account was no longer in use.

 

[grantw]

I didn't really get a clear understanding about if all of these changes are actioned by the registrant or could be done by the registrar independently.

Most changes to domains go through the registrar to Nominet (via EPP or PGP) so all registrars have pretty much ultimate power over customers domains and can make changes such as these.

http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrars/renewals/renewalschanges/

Grant