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Rule Changes Closer to Reality — Expired Domain

Group issues final note with recommended changes to how registrars handle expired domain names.

ICANN’s Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process Working Group has issued its final note (pdf) with 18 recommendations for handling expired domain names.

Although the recommendations have increased from 14 in the previous note, many of them are merely “best practices” and not requirements.

One of the most notable changes is a requirement that registrars interrupt the DNS of an expired domain name for at least 8 days sometime ahead of the domain is deleted. Most major registrars by now do this by showing an “expired domain” parked page upon expiration. This is a very effective way to grab a domain registrant’s attention that a domain needs to be renewed.

The expired domain page must include a notification that the domain name is expired and information regarding how to renew it or a link to that information.

The recommendations would also mandate a timeline for registrar expiration notices and require at least one notice to be sent following a domain expires. Registrants must not be forced to log in to a web site in order to view an expiration notice.

PEDNR’s recommendations are part of a formal Policy Development Process (PDP).

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