A domain expiring in two weeks, a domain now belonging to someone else, a domain with a deletion lock: all of this costs time and trust in the sale. That is why we check before someone else does.
The Register Query
Automatically every night, and on demand in the Register card on the domain page.
| Information | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Registrar | where the domain is located today |
| Created | date of initial registration |
| Expires | expiration date; not every TLD publishes one |
| Last Changed | last change in the register |
| Status | locks and states of the register |
What is checked and reported is what stands out: expiration in less than 30 or 60 days, a transfer lock, the 60-day lock after registration or change of owner, deletion status such as pendingDelete or redemptionPeriod.
TLDs without public expiration date. .de and some others do not publish one. There a field appears in which you can enter the date yourself. It then appears as your information in the transaction and in the contract, not as information from the register.
Daily Monitoring
Once a day we check every listed domain to see if it still belongs to you. We compare what has changed since the last check:
- in the register: new creation date, changed registrar, deletion status, expired
- in the DNS: our proof entry disappeared or changed, our name servers no longer there
A clear finding removes the domain immediately from the marketplace and reports it to you. An ambiguous finding requires the same result on two consecutive days, because a name server sometimes does not respond.
Before Purchase
When someone clicks to buy, we check once more before a transaction is created. What speaks against it appears to the buyer as the reason and the purchase does not go through. This is the more unpleasant, but more honest sequence: rather a purchase that does not begin than one that cannot end.
What Remains in the Transaction
What the check has revealed is attached to the transaction and remains there. In a package, the domain name appears before each finding, because an expiring domain is a problem even if the others are in order.