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When will a .com domain become available?

Type any .com name. We ask the Verisign registry — the official record for every .com — whether someone owns it and, if it is on its way out, which day it will be released. Free, no sign-up.

What the answer means

How exact is the date?

Exact once a name reaches pending delete: it is released on the sixth day after it entered that status. We checked that rule against Verisign’s registry records for 550 names and it matched every one. For a name in redemption we count 37 days from the date the registry recorded the deletion, which holds unless the owner restores it. Before a registrar deletes a name, nobody can know the day — only a window of a few weeks.

Why not a WHOIS site or a DNS check?

A name in redemption or pending delete disappears from DNS weeks before it is free, so a DNS check can call it available while someone still owns it. The registry’s RDAP service is the reliable answer, and it is what this check asks.

Source: Verisign RDAP service; Verisign .com Registry Agreement, Appendix 7

Real names being released in the next two days

A few of the best-scoring, from the registry’s current list:

When it opens

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Read more: how to register an expired .com · the whole timeline · every status explained

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