Domain Name Hunting?

[juggernaut]

Well I have been hunting one domain name since November. It's my sisters business name. It expired on 12/25/05. So I waited the 30 days hoping the person would not register it. The past two days there is no update on the name with whois from directnic. The name is with godaddy, when I go to their site and look up the whois and then go to see the underlying data it shows and expireation date of 12/25/06 does this mean the person registered the name again? That info was not in there last week. The people are not using the name at all. a wayback look up shows nothing on the site for 2 years, go to the domain now and it's parked. I would like to get the domain, but if I have to contact the people to purchase it that would be cool to. But I don't want to contact them only to have them run and buy it thinking they are going to make a killing on the sale. I thought after 30 days of them not re-registering the name that it would be released to the public. Could I be wrong with that?