Domainers only care about what happens to expired domains when they want to buy them.
But we don’t think about What the Registrar will do with our domain name if we don’t renew it.
Perhaps expired domains should be the spoils for a registrar’s hard work getting customers to register domains in the first place.
If they let it simply expire, the expired domains would go to whoever has the best drop catching technology.
But most expired domains are auctioned off through exclusive relationships, sending money back to the domain registrar.
Is one of these more fair than the other? In the first model the registrars get nothing, in the second they get a cut. Someone has to have an advantage getting expired domains. Who should it be?
We also have some registrars that keep domains for themselves. But that creates a conflict of interest with customers. Continue Reading