Tag: Domain renewal

GoDaddy’s domain expiration process explained

I had a good call with GoDaddy today to explain the process of what happens to a domain when it is deleted. I was interested in purchasing a domain that I know was deleted today. Of course, the easiest way is to have the account holder un-delete the domain and transfer it, but in this case the user who deleted it no longer wants to deal with the domain, or me asking to have it transferred (it’s a two-step process and takes time).

When a domain is deleted, the account holder has a few weeks to undo that action. After this time, the domain goes to an expired domains auction. If no one buys it, GoDaddy backorder customers ($25-$35 cost for a backorder, good for a 1-year registration) will purchase it. If you do not have a backorder, you cannot purchase the domain during this time since you are just a normal person. The domain then goes to a secondary auction. The secondary auction expires about 84 days from when the domain was first deleted by the user. That’s why the GoDaddy support team says “about 90 days the domain could be released back for normal purchase” if no one buys it at auction. GoDaddy monitoring on a domain just sends you an email of the status. I suppose you could order a backorder during the auction process if you see no one is purchasing it, then when it closes and goes to backorders you might be able to get it that way.

Here is the time-table for the scenario of what happens to a domain when a user deletes it:

Day Status

0

 User deletes domain

26

 Expired Domain Auction starts

36

 If someone bids, done, domain is sold.
If no one bids, it goes to the first person who Backordered the domain. You cannot simply buy the domain for $9.99, you need to purchase a backorder.

41

 3-day floating period the domain is in limbo. Nothing happens here.

43

 Secondary Domain Auction starts

84

 The domain is released for normal purchase if it didn’t sell

 

So, if the domain you are looking for is any good, it might sell at auction. Otherwise, purchase a backorder for $25-$35 and hope you get it! If it sells in the auction, you are out the $ for the backorder, so it’s a gamble. In this case, I don’t want to pay (gamble) that no one bids and I will get the domain, since I am just interested in trying to list it for sale myself, so I am passing on purchasing a backorder and just letting it go. I might check back in 84 days but I have a felling it will be purchased.

A good rule of thumb I have noticed is if the domain is worth anything, some domain selling company will snatch it up and you will never see it again. Still waiting for ericschrader.com, I have been waiting for this to fall out of auctions and auction resellers for about 5 years now.

But hey, you might get lucky. I let SharePointEric.com expire a few years ago and it was bought at auction by a reseller, and now it’s back for normal purchase for $11.99 from GoDaddy:

GoDaddy has a cool apprasal tool to check the monetary value of a domain: https://www.godaddy.com/domain-value-appraisal/appraisal/?checkAvail=1&tmskey=&domainToCheck=sharepointeric.com

If you have any tips, post them below.

There is so much to purchasing domains now days, its not like the old days (back before emoji’s).

SharePoint Server- Renewing SSL certificates quickly

A week ago, my wildcard SSL certificate expired on GoDaddy. It was automatically purchased, but I still had to validate my domain and download a new IIS CER certificate request file.

My old post from a few years ago has some good info on certs, the file types, etc. https://eschrader.com/2014/09/23/sharepoint-2013-iis7-nlb-ssl-certificates-and-godaddy/

This is a quick guide.

The only issue I have with this quick renewal is that I could not export the certs as a PFX, but I was able to get them installed on the server in IIS by completing a CSR

Here are the steps:

GoDaddy automatically renews SSL certificate

GoDaddy has renewed your SSL certificate, but you have to verify your domain using a TXT record they give you (@ is the host field).

Once you verify, you can download the certificate. Note, this is a CER which is a certificate request that has to be completed in IIS.

Download the certificate for IIS

Copy and extract the zip to the server

I chose to delete my old certificates from my computers Personal certificate store.

Once removed, I go into IIS and go to Server Certificated under the machine:

Once in Server Certificates in IIS, click on Complete Certificate Request:

Change the file type to *.* (All files) and find your CER file you copied over:

Enter your certificates friendly name (mine is a wildcard, so I use *.mydomain.com):

Next, go to your SharePoint IIS web apps that use this host header (could be more than one) and edit the bindings and select the new certificate. If you see multiple, this is why I deleted them in my step above. If you get an error saying change this will leave behind an old certificate of the same name, just double check the other web applications in IIS to make sure they are set correctly. Updating one should update them all, but I always check each site in IIS.

That’s it! The certificate is update.

The bad thing is I have to repeat the IIS complete CSR steps on each machine. I would rather export the first one and import PFX certificate files to my other machines, but hey, this is how I got it to work.

Leave any comments below, thanks!