Here's the situation : I've registered kilgayne.com and icestarsoftware.com some years ago and now they're both expired but according to whois.com I couldn't re-register them yet.

Now my question is : when we register a domain name and it expires, can it be used back or is it taken for good?... Like, if I register "adomainthatsnottakenyet.com" for one year, in two years, could it be registered by someone else? I'm not sure to understand exactly how it works yet. :-?

Once a domain name registration expires, it becomes available to all. Anyone can now register it, including you. If it has not yet been taken, go for it.

Regards,

Will

but those domains I'm talking about have expired but I'm still not able to register them back! what's going on?!

When did they expire?

kilgayne.com expired two months ago

Sorry I didn't reply to this thread earlier Kilgayne but I was busy with the forum upgrade and some other stuff.

I am no expert but I know something about expired domains.

According to this page: http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.as...3&subm it.y=5
your domain name's status is set to REDEMPTION PERIOD which basically means nobody including the registrar is able to renew this domain at this time.

I think you may renew this domain right now but it will cost you a special fee e.g. $120, to renew it. Otherwise you can wait for the status to change, which should be any day now and then it will be a free for all. IOW, the first person to grab it will get it. If it has any kind of traffic and Google PageRank, don't be surprised to find it registered (by some bulk domain buyer, no doubt) as soon as it's available again.

Uh oh! Bad news... it's $160 actually.

;_;

good thing I don't need this domain anymore

thanks for the info