I’m Mostapha. I buy and sell names from Morocco. I have lost a name to a dead card, and I have paid to keep leftovers I should have dropped. Early renewal is not a personality. It is a calendar for names that survive the Domain Value Checker as if you were buying them today. How we score. FAQ. A book that grows is a stricter door: portfolio. Failed books renew everything: why they fail.
What the calendar actually is
After expiry you are in ICANN’s auto-renew grace, then often redemption, then pending delete, then a drop. Last-day heroics fail on billing, a mailbox you do not read, or a lock you cannot get past. Reminders at 90 / 60 / 30 days. Auto-renew is backup, not a reason to keep junk. The mailbox is the lock: that page. Checklist: security 101.
Hide the purchase price once a year. If you would not buy the letters tomorrow, do not renew — use grace, don’t romanticise it. Governance is a drop column: spreadsheet. Leftovers do not become rent while you “think”: not passive income.
Keepers vs the rest
Keepers: radio test, trusted TLD, history you can explain, no fight you will not fund. Five factors: value. History: snapshots. Multi-year renew only on those. The rest: drop. If a keeper is listed, one ask: before you sell.
If it already expired, pay grace/redemption if the checker still likes it. Then lock. If the name moved and you did not do it: freeze first.
Decision
- Checker each row before you pay another year.
- Calendar + auto-renew + live mailbox on keepers only.
- Everything else is a drop, not a reminder.
Keep the Google row. Five easy steps were a vendor tour. The investor step is: do not renew a name you would not buy.