Domain Name Hunting?

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Most registrars give you a 30 day leeway after the "expir date" to renew - so they probably did. Otherwise it would go into on-hold status for 5 days (usually) then into the redemption period which is 30 days during which the current owner can still "buy it back" from the registrar at an elevated price. It then goes pending delete for up to 4 days - so all together dependant on the registrar - it wont get released for at least 40 days after the "record" expiration date.