I missed the renewal on one of my .com domain names by one day - and the name was re-registered for registrar client

Registrar up to something dodgy!

[Elric99]

Hello,

Perhaps my title is slightly misleading. I actually missed the renewal on one of my .com domain names by one day - and the name was re-registered the day after renewal had expired.

The registrar has registered the name for one of their clients (possibly one of their friends) and they are trying to extort money from me to get the domain name back.

This all seems underhand. Could someone please advise as to what I could do to get the name back. I have had the name for over 10 years.

Technically I am to blame here but is there any procedure I can use?

Thanks

[phranque]

perhaps this would be a good place to start - Expired Domain Deletion Policy | ICANN:
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/eddp [icann.org]

then i would read every word of the expiration policy for your registrar and act accordingly.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

This look ominous.

3.7.5 At the conclusion of the registration period, failure by or on behalf of the Registered Name Holder to consent that the registration be renewed within the time specified in a second notice or reminder shall, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, result in cancellation of the registration by the end of the auto-renew grace period (although Registrar may choose to cancel the name earlier).

[davezan]

Perhaps my title is slightly misleading.

Not just perhaps and slightly. It is misleading, though I realize one may feel that way.

Anyway...if you do a WHOIS lookup on the domain name, what does its status line and
last updated date say?

David

[Kendo]

Don't worry, you might get it back one day... in about 6 months time when traffic to that site dries up and loses it's reputation, they may offer it to you for sale. That happened to us a couple of years ago... 600 unique visitors per day dropped to 30 by the time we we got it back. 10 years of credibility down the drain, all because we didn't get the domain renewal notice. We fought this from the start only to find that the rules had been changed in recent years to support monetisers... it seems that the gov bodies don't care who buys just as long as they make sales. In Australia a domain name had to be a close match to the company name registering it and that company needed to be an Australian registered company. But that's not so any more.

[creeking]

it may still be recoverable for a while after *expiration*.

what registrar, and what was the EXPIRATION date?


if it dropped and was re-registered, then someone else has it legitimately.

[Kendo]

Monetisers get lists of expired domains daily, check their traffic and swoop without mercy. They either have accounts with domain agents or are domain resellers. In fact I suspect that many staff of domain registries moonlight as monetisers. In Australia they are a protected species and the AU domain rules were changed for them to acquire domains that were originally protected by naming rights.