Round 2 – digitalShe dotcom

Last year about this time I found I had not renewed my domain name digitalShe because all the friendly reminders were not coming to our eMail account, but rather a long dead eMail account, terminated with GoDaddy 3 years prior…

Let the games begin! Can I win my domain name of the year without playing the GoDaddy spending Game? 
I have been checking the status of the account since May 22 – when the “Depression Deliverance Online” site parked at digitalShe dotcom  seemed to disappear. 
Did I mention that I found links to online drug retailers through this site? 
Talk about shady! 
I watched the WhoIs info change to show that the domain name had expired, but I could not purchase.  I thought there would be some kind of hold on the name, but that I would be able to get it by July 4th – the anniversary of my realization that I’d lost my account.
No can do.

So, I called GoDaddy.  Tyler insists that the domain name is currently in a redemption period with the ICANN for 30 days (since no “Backorders” were placed on the name – $18.99 each, the name went back to ICANN he says).
After said redemption period, it will enter a Pending state for another 8 days.
Tyler says it should come back available to the general public around the begining of August.  Sigh. 
Of course, I can pony up that extra $20 (yeah, I round up) to get it as soon as it becomes available, maybe (if someone else hasn’t had that bright idea first)…

*** wait, was that days or business-days?**

Do I pay or do I hope?
I’m hoping.  Guess I’m too cheep to give them an extra $20 for a domain name…
I’d rather buy a can ‘o Beer and some Grocery Store Sushi.  Call me cheep.

And, don’tcha know it – fishing around our accounts again trying to buy this darn name back - that funky old email was in the database as contact info once again! 
Tyler assures me that he’s changed it, once and for all.
Do you believe him?