Domains & DNS
Be first when the domain you want drops
Someone else owns the name you want, and one day they will forget to renew it. InfraNest watches it from that day on — through grace, redemption and pending delete — tells you when it will really become free, and registers it the moment it does. Through your own registrar, or a backorder you only pay for if it wins.
Free plan · No credit card · Watching and auto-register cost nothing
- Watched from expiry to the moment it drops
- A real date, with the window it deserves
- Registered for you the second it is free
- Backorder costs nothing unless it wins
Best-effort backorder — InfraNest keeps checking and grabs a domain the instant it drops, but can’t guarantee a catch on heavily contested names.
Expected drop
in 12 days1 Oct 2026, ± 7 days
Registry stage
Redemption
Next check
in 1 hour
Check frequency
Every 6 hours · Every 15 minutes from 26 Sept 2026
Expired
18 Jul 2026
Redemption
27 Aug 2026
Pending delete
26 Sept 2026
Drops
1 Oct 2026
Deletion windows for .com are fixed by ICANN, so these are the registry’s real timings. The date can still move by weeks — the registrar chooses when in the first 45 days it deletes an expired name — and it firms up once the name reaches redemption.
Works with your registrars
Know when it will actually be free
An expired domain does not become available the next day. It sits in grace, then redemption, then pending delete — usually about 75 days in total — and only then does the registry let it go. InfraNest tracks which stage your name is in and turns that into a date you can plan around. And because registries delete in batches, that date comes with the window it deserves: ± 7 days once the name reaches redemption, ± 1 day once it is in pending delete. Underneath it, a line telling you where the timing came from, so you always know how much to trust it.
- Every stage tracked, from the day it expires to the day it drops
- A ± window that tightens as the date gets closer
- Says whether the timing is the registry’s own, measured by us, or a general estimate
- When nobody publishes the timings, it says “not known yet” instead of guessing
Best-effort backorder — InfraNest keeps checking and grabs a domain the instant it drops, but can’t guarantee a catch on heavily contested names.
Expected drop
in 12 days1 Oct 2026, ± 7 days
Registry stage
Redemption
Next check
in 1 hour
Check frequency
Every 6 hours · Every 15 minutes from 26 Sept 2026
Expired
18 Jul 2026
Redemption
27 Aug 2026
Pending delete
26 Sept 2026
Drops
1 Oct 2026
Deletion windows for .com are fixed by ICANN, so these are the registry’s real timings. The date can still move by weeks — the registrar chooses when in the first 45 days it deletes an expired name — and it firms up once the name reaches redemption.
Every name you are waiting on, in one list
Watch as many names as you like and see them all together: what stage each one is in, when it should drop, and how likely it is to really be let go rather than quietly renewed. The list leads with anything that came free today, so the one row that needs you right now is the first thing you see. Behind it, the checking speeds up on its own — a name going nowhere is looked at every few days, one in pending delete is checked every minute.
- Anything available right now is pulled to the top
- Filter by status, tag or auction; sort by how catchable a name is
- Checks get faster as the drop approaches, down to once a minute
- You are told if the owner renews it, so you know when it comes round again
Decide now what happens the second it drops
A drop lasts seconds and cannot be retried, so you choose in advance and InfraNest does it without you. Just tell me sends an alert and nothing else — nothing is registered, nothing is charged. Register it for me tries your own registrars in the order you set, stopping at the first that succeeds, with each one’s price for that extension shown before you commit. Backorder hands it to a specialist service that goes for the name ahead of the drop — the reliable route for a contested .com, and you pay only if it wins.
- See what each registrar charges before you arm anything
- Backups take over automatically if the first one cannot register it
- A backorder is free unless it actually catches the name
- It checks you are ready — contacts, eligibility, a registrar for that extension
Alert only. Nothing is registered and nothing is charged.
Order for .com
OVHcloud€7.99 first year€13.49/yr renewal
Dynadot$10.88 first year$10.88/yr renewal
Porkbun$11.08 first year$11.08/yr renewal
Namecheap$13.98 first year$18.08/yr renewalBackups add coverage and reliability — another registrar can cover a TLD the first can’t, or step in if one’s API fails at the drop. They don’t guarantee a contested catch, though: for hotly-contested names a professional drop-catch or backorder service usually wins.
A specialist catch service grabs the name ahead of the drop — the only approach that reliably wins a contested .com. You pay only if it wins.
We can’t bid for you — only registrars can.
Everything else it handles
The parts that are only interesting when you need them.
Auctions, both kinds
Some names go to a registrar auction instead of dropping — those are flagged with a bid link, price and end time. And some registries auction a name off before anyone can register it, so an armed watch never fires a doomed, still-billable attempt.
Alerts worth reading
Told when it is dropping soon, available, caught, or missed — and when the owner renews it after all. The rule is to alert on changes to the answer, not changes to the evidence.
When we cannot read the registry
Registries rate-limit. A watch nobody can read used to look exactly like a healthy one, so now you are told, once per extension rather than fifty times.
One timeline per name
Registry changes, our own checks and every catch attempt as a single story, so you can see what happened and when.
Racing your registrars
A premium option that fires several at once rather than one after another — a small edge on contested names. It switches itself off, with the reason, where a registrar cannot do it.
Caught names join your portfolio
A name you catch lands straight in your domain list, ready for a DNS template, monitoring and renewal tracking.
Plain-English registry status
Registry codes translated into words, with an explainer for each. The ones we genuinely do not know stay as codes rather than being mistranslated.
Watch limits by plan
Ten watches on Free, a hundred on Pro, unlimited on Business. Watching and auto-register cost nothing on any of them.
Start watching a name in under a minute
Type the domain. You will see its stage, its drop date and what it would cost to catch — before you decide anything.
Refreshing WHOIS by hand vs InfraNest
The difference between hoping you are looking on the right day and being told.
By hand
- Checking WHOIS every few days and hoping you catch the day
- No idea whether it will really drop or just get renewed
- One date off a forum post, with no idea how firm it is
- Typing your card details in at 3am, racing everyone else
- Finding out it went to auction after you have waited two months
With InfraNest
- Watched every day, then every minute as the drop gets close
- A verdict on whether it is genuinely being let go
- A date with a ± window, and a note on where it came from
- Registered for you automatically, at a price you approved in advance
- Told the moment it is routed to an auction, with a link to bid
One login, ten modules
Every module is in every plan, Free included — what changes is how much of each you get.
The cost of doing it separately
Buy each piece from a different tool and it adds up fast:
- Domain & DNS
- ~€30
- Uptime monitoring
- ~€29
- SSL tracking
- ~€15
- Status page
- ~€29
- Server panel
- ~€15
- Across 4–5 separate tools
- €100–150/mo
Frequently asked
How long after a domain expires can I register it?
Usually about 75 days, not the next day. An expired domain first sits in a grace period while the owner can still renew it, then 30 days of redemption where they can pay a fee to get it back, then 5 days of pending delete — and only then does the registry release it. InfraNest tracks which stage a name is in and tells you the date it should actually become free.
What is drop-catching?
Registering a domain in the moment the registry deletes it, before anyone else can. The drop lasts seconds, so it has to be automated — which is what this does: it watches the name, works out when the drop is coming, and fires a registration the instant it happens.
Can you guarantee I get the domain?
No, and nobody honestly can. We can tell you whether a name is genuinely being let go; we cannot know how many other people are waiting for the same one, so you will not find a made-up “win probability” anywhere on this page. For a name nobody else wants, your own registrar almost always gets it. For a sought-after .com, a backorder is the reliable route — and it costs you nothing unless it wins.
What is the difference between auto-register and a backorder?
Auto-register uses your own registrar accounts and fires the moment the name is free. It is free to use and works well for names nobody is competing for. A backorder hands the job to a specialist service that goes after the name ahead of the drop, which is what it takes to win a contested one — you only pay if it succeeds.
What if the domain goes to auction instead?
Plenty do. Some registrars auction expired names rather than letting them drop, and a few registries auction them before anyone can register. InfraNest spots both, flags the watch, and gives you the link to go and bid — with the current price and end time where the provider publishes them. We cannot bid for you: only registrars can.
What does it cost?
Watching domains and auto-registering them are included on every plan, including Free — you pay your registrar for the name itself, at their price, which is shown before you arm anything. Free covers 10 watches, Pro 100, Business unlimited. A backorder is charged only when it wins.
Start watching the name you want
Type a domain and see when it is likely to be free — before you commit to anything.
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