Dynadot Help

After a domain expires and passes its renewal grace period and redemption period, the domain is "dropped" or re-released to the public for registration. Before it's re-released, you can use a drop catch or backorder service to place a request to register the dropping domain. Then, the backorder service will attempt to register the domain for you as soon as it drops. Most domains are dropped from the central registry 75 days after their expiration date.

Dynadot Backorders

If a domain receives one or more backorder requests, our drops system will try to catch it for you. If we're successful and you were the only backorder request, an order will be created for you and the domain will be placed into your account after the order is completed. If there are multiple backorder requests, there will be a backorder auction for the domain.

To place a domain backorder request with us, the following is required:

• You must have a Dynadot Account (creating one is free).
• You must have $5 in account balance or have successfully completed an order of $5+ in the last 365 days. If you are new to Dynadot or do not have a recent order history, the easiest way to fulfill this requirement is by creating a prepay order.
• You cannot be banned from our auctions and backorders.
• You must set your marketplace default payment settings in your account.

The required minimum spending for currencies other than USD is:

CNY: ¥35.00
EUR: €4.25
GBP: £3.75
CAD: C$6.25
AUD: A$7.00
MXN: MX$100.00
BRL: R$20.00
INR: ₹355.00
IDR: Rp6,850.00
THB: A$7.00
PHB: ₱290.00
KRW: ₩7,200

Visit our Supported Backorder TLDs help page to see our up-to-date list of TLDs that have drop catch support.