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>  I notice GoDaddy offer a domain back-ordering service; has anyone had
> success with this or something similar?

I don't think GoDaddy's service extends to .uk domains - according to
this page its only .COM,.NET,.ORG,.INFO, .BIZ, or .US

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/Domain_Alert/landing.asp?ci=9001

I've used DropCatcher for this purpose (www.dropcatcher.co.uk) but
aside from the fact they never seemed to be very successful for me,
when they finally were successful I'm now having horrendous problems
getting the domain under my control.  And they aren't responding to
any of my emails...

That was a very negative response - sorry about that!

One last thing to mention if you didn't realise - the date the whois
gives as the end of the registration isn't the date the domain will
become available again.  It'll become "SUSPENDED" and then it'll sit
around for a bit until Nominet decide to free it up.  There's some
good information here about the drop cycle:
http://www.deleting.co.uk/dropcycle/

There's also a list of sites which offer drop-catching services here:
http://www.deleting.co.uk/backorder/

As a disclaimer, aside from DropCatcher I've not used any of the
companies listed on that page (nor heard of most of them) so this
isn't a recommendation, merely for information.

Good luck!


Simon