There is a domain I want, Godaddy is showing the expiration date in a few days. Is it really expiring or is it likely that the autorenew will kick in last minute? Thanks
The owner can renew at regular rate up to 45 days past the expiration date. If it expires and is not renewed it will available for you to register (or try) in about 80 days. http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/gtld-lifecycle.jpg
Auto renew should pick it up on the day it is set to "expire". If not, you can still recover your domain as the same rate for a few weeks after. However after a certain period, it will enter a "pending deleting" or similar status. Once it hits this status, you will have to wait for your old registrar to drop the domain and then hopefully reregister it before someone else. I'd recommend not letting it get that far Honestly I'd recommend eNom over GoDaddy for domains due the fact that GoDaddys ordering process is cluttered with spam
you can never tell whether it will get renew or not the point is that even it get expired you will have to wait for 3 more months ....
GD sends expiration notice 90 days in advance. If your domain is set to auto-renew, GD with auto renew it or else you will have to manually renew it.
After the Domain expires, you can still renew it at the renewal cost for about 40 days..After that it moves into the redemption period for about 30 days ( it costs about 60-70 $ then ) and then goes into the deleted status for 5 days before becoming available for re-registration..