Drop cycle

[dropped.uk]

All of those except pizzahut dropped at 1 second past midnight. I assumed pizzahut was a deletion. So far everything is dropping today that would have dropped today 'normally'. Nothing from tomorrows list has dropped.

Did phonecredit uk do the same? The registration date is 11th.

 

[Aaron Clifford]

ejstyle.co.uk this was booked in with me for today (and due to drop today), and was caught today (not by me). Dropped not so long ago, so that name seemed to be a normal drop.

 

[Hay]

I can confirm ejstyle was in today's drop list so anyone that has this down for tomorrow has their drop lists 1 day in front.

 

[Hay]

I sent an email to Nominet late last night venting my frustration with this. I told them I don't want one of their generic template emails in response and I have heard nothing back since.

They are out at polling stations!

 

[RobM]

You'll probably get a reply just before they leave the office - it'll no doubt be a bcc reply to all
When they give you the usual 'Domains can be renewed any time for 90 days after expiry and will then become available some time after that', which is their standard answer, you can try pointing out that:
a) you can renew your domains any time for 91 days and
b) They are only becoming available from the 92nd day and onwards.
They'll go away and a few days later come back with 'Domains can be renewed any time for 90 days after expiry and will then become available some time after that, have a lovely day'.

In short don't waste your time. They always seem to coincidentally have DAC/EPP issues about the times when they want to 'discuss' ideas for change and push you in the direction they want you to go.

 

[foz]

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.pl?query=google.co.uk no longer works. Anyone have an alternative?

 

[armistice]

All of those except pizzahut dropped at 1 second past midnight as far as I saw. I was monitoring the whole list from 5 to midnight seeing if there was going to be a deluge of domains dumped just before midnight. I assumed pizzahut was a deletion or something being a tm. So far everything is dropping today that would have dropped today 'normally'. Nothing from tomorrows list has dropped. So unless anything changes we are back to how it was before the two days of early drops and one day of nothing.

So probably this from the first page of the thread :

Everything will be back to normal by Thursday.

Nominet had maintenance scheduled on Wednesday 9th October, the result of which suspended names a day earlier than they should have. As I use zone files for the basis of my drop list I can see this anomaly.

All I can find on Nominet regarding the process is: https://www.nominet.uk/domain-support/

If your registrar does not renew your domain name with us before the expiry date, we’ll send an email to the contact email address held against the domain name. The email will contain your registrar’s contact details, so you can contact them about renewing the domain name.

Once you’ve gone over your expiry date, you’ll still have time to renew your domain before it gets cancelled, so there’s no need to panic. But if we don’t receive a renewal request within 30 days of the expiry date, we’ll suspend the domain name. This means all services that use that domain name, such as your website and email, will stop working. We’ll send you a suspension warning seven days before this happens, and will also send you a suspension notice when it takes place, unless your registrar has opted you out of receiving these. It’s still possible to renew your domain during this time.

When your domain has been suspended for 60 days without being renewed, we’ll schedule it for cancellation. We’ll send you one final reminder to renew your domain 83 days after the expiry date. As this is just seven days before your domain is scheduled for cancellation, you’ll have to act quickly if you wish to renew it at this last stage.

Once cancelled, the domain name will become instantly available to others who may wish to re-register it.

 

[Hay]

https://www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=google.co.uk#whois-results ?

Better: https://www.nominet.uk/wp-content/t...n-availability-checker.php?query=google.co.uk

It gives whois on all nominet extensions at once.

 

[foz]

https://www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=google.co.uk#whois-results ?

Better: https://www.nominet.uk/wp-content/t...n-availability-checker.php?query=google.co.uk

It gives whois on all nominet extensions at once.

Thanks chaps.

 

[Hay]

Lol. I really like WordPress and I use it for pretty much everything, but it's surprising to see a company like Nominet using it for the whole website.

They wont be using wordpress on the backend, it will be proxied, they will just be using it on the frontend with cloudflare but easily bypass cloudflare so pointless using them!

 

[Hay]

Foz, If you look at the html response, "<div class="whois-response" id="couk">" so you could parse the response and retrieve the filtered html based on the id attribute for the given extension if you want to do this automagically.

 

[stitchbob]

so todays drops include theproxylist.co.uk which was on yesterdays list, and passyourbiketest.co.uk which is on tomorrows. It's going to be a weird day.

 

[RobM]

No both were on todays
https://ukbackorder.com/droplists.html

 

[Siusaidh]

They could well be implementing some Christmas surprises for the end of the month due to all the domains that are going to drop from those registrars that have to release all the free .uk domains they registered "Without permission but Obviously in good faith in case the given client wanted the .uk" kind of like a 2nd RoR

Hi Marshall,

I know Registrars like Fasthosts and Ionos 1&1 registered over 100,000 .uk domains on that basis at the end of June (and Nominet defended this when I challenged them - "to protect the .co.uk registrants from losing the .uks to cybersquatters"...

But I don't understand why you think these .uk domains would drop at "the end of the month" when they're not due to expire until June?

 

[stitchbob]

There are a lot of .uk domains due to drop in January, presumably from a previous similar promotion. Mostly around the 18th based on my watchlist.

 

[armistice]

Can we get this thread back on track to wild conspiracy theories please

 

[RobM]

Can we get this thread back on track to wild conspiracy theories please

Yeah now I remember why I stopped posting outside of the auctions. Anyway all is back to 'normal' for now. Nothing to see here. Nominet have been extra helpful and kept us informed every step of the way.

 

[timter51]

I've been chasing the same fecking domain for a day and a half now

 

[lazarus]

Ctrl C -> Ctrl V

 

[lazarus]

They have an additional button at Nominet.