Bitzio, Inc. (fka BTZO)

[iSmellCrickets]

I think the point and facts are not being understood here.

Completely understandable when someone is not accustomed to dealing with such things on a daily basis.

The domain was not in grace period, allow me to elaborate. Tucows, AKA a subsidiary of godaddy, as their own registrar, where said domains being handled, has resellers. These resellers bill 30, 60, even 90 days prior to the domain expiration date.

By looking at the timestamps on the domains in questions, as well as the current host (where the DNS (Domain Name Servers records point to) , as well as running a 'dig -x command to view the PTR or pointer records (AKA reverse DNS)) , we can easily see the relevant information.

Here we can ping the domain to grab the IP:
ping skipjackdnd.com
PING skipjackdnd.com (50.63.202.80) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ip-50-63-202-80.ip.secureserver.net (50.63.202.80): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=96.0 ms

As 'secureserver.net' is the standard DNS for godaddy

Then we run the dig command:
dig -x 50-63-202-80
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 40379
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;50-63-202-80.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
in-addr.arpa. 2844 IN SOA b.in-addr-servers.arpa. nstld.iana.org. 2015074439 1800 900 604800 3600

We can see there are currently no reverse DNS records, or PTR / pointer records....

Interestingly enough, the domain pointed to a different host just yesterday, therefore we know there is activity. As we know the domain is now being 'hosted' at godaddy itself. At the moment, the domain is currently 'parked' at godaddy, likely in a transitional state awaiting completion of transfer, with no PTR or A records to match the IP address, pointing to a webserver to host the site.


That said, most if not all secondary domain name resellers, bundle their payments. In other words, they might send out a CSV of all domains being renewed in a specific time period. Until that CSV ( Comma Separated Value ) is received by the actual registrar, in this case godaddy, the domains are not renewed.

Now concerning the domain owner, we can see the domain is held by 'Hub Blanchette' as the registrant running under the company 'Skipjack Dive & Dancewear, Inc.' Where some of this information has also been updated.

As of this minute, it's difficult to say if 'Hub' will do anything more with the skipjackdnd.com website. However as shown above, we can see there has been activity over the last month, a domain name renewal and continuance, as well as a host transfer for the website itself.