Hello Domain Masters, first post, please be gentle. I want to register an expiring domain, but the domain I am trying to register is under the .re tld which is controlled by afnic.fr Interestingly their web whois page does not show the expiry date, but issuing whois on command line has a 'last-updated' line in the response: last updated in September 2012. This domain has its anniversary in August. Can any of you Domain Supreme Masters advise on when this domain will likely be available? Also, what company is the best value/money dropcatcher for French domains? Is the domain even going to be dropcaught as it was never set up, it has no pagerank? I will not post the domain name for obvious reasons but I'll PM it if needed. Thank you for any help.
Just an fyi, .fr domains (that's domains managed by afnic) just don't expire. If their owner decides to not renew them, they will remain with their registrar. The registrar may initiate an erase but that seldom happens, and they remain active. What regstrars do with them I am yet to find out. My guess is that they just squat on them.