Hi, This is normal behaviour. When a domain expires it is deactivated for the first 3 days. Thats why you're seeing the NXDOMAIN response. After this it gets reactivated and moved to the renewyourname.net nameservers, which is our Expired Domains program. The expiry switch to 2009 is also normal. This is how you get a 40-day expiration period instead of the domain being deleted at expiry and going to redemption.
Hope this clears things up. -Frank / Team Lead, Tucows Support. Jo for Groups and Lists wrote: > I am confused. > I have a domain name completely offline. > Now I know the domain is expired (often clients renew a couple of > days late), but normally all that would happen is the nameservers > are changed to Tucows' parking pages... It appears to have been > automatically renewed at the registry (which would mean still in > Tucows' control until they drop it, correct?), however a "dig" in > any of the GTLD servers (i.e. @A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) is turning up > NXDOMAIN. Does this mean that Tucows has already sent a delete > request ??? Note that our own NS are also still listed (and > responsive for this domain). > > > Domain Name: ILL...........ASI.COM > Registrar: TUCOWS INC. > Whois Server: whois.tucows.com > Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net > Name Server: NS4.DA.........ONS.COM > Name Server: NS3.DA.........ONS.COM > Status: clientTransferProhibited > Status: clientUpdateProhibited > Status: clientDeleteProhibited > Updated Date: 04-mar-2008 > Creation Date: 03-mar-2004 > Expiration Date: 03-mar-2009 > > > Jo > > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen > _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
