A word of caution - Domain Names

The original owner "Give it back!"

[ska_demon]

Heh heh, the funniest thing happened to me this morning. I bought a domain the other week. Nothing special just a sort of generic "do anything with this site type of thing".

I got it from an expired domain co. for a couple of bucks. Its got pr3 and a handful of backlinks. Not really worth mentioning.

Anyhow the original owners mailed me this morning saying something along the lines of "It's mine, give it back" I mailed them back and told them I got it legitimately and it now belongs to me. "Go check the whois" I told them, "It's mine now". If they ignored messages from their registration company then more fool them.

On the story goes, They now want to take me to court to get their domain back, ROFLMAO

I replied telling them it would be a waste of time "cos it's mine, all mine".

So, a word of caution. If you don't want to lose your hard work to an underqualified, inexperienced, smart-ass affiliate (me)
Remember to pay your fees. he he he he he he he he

Ska

[Sunflux]

Network Solutions might be pricy, but I have to give them points for giving fair notice - I just received a snail mail notice that one of my domains was expiring... in December 2005. Gee, sounds urgent...

[Telf]

All this sounds pretty scary to me, a complete novice in the world of domain names. I have always paid my renewals promptly on receipt of advice notices, but have now been hit the problem of the provider company going bankrupt. I cannot contact them at all to get the domains transfered to another company.
Does anyone know what normally happens in these cases?

I though that at the worst, when the domains expire in May 2005, I would be able to buy them afresh in the normal way to keep the continuity but from the prvious messages it seems they might go to auction.

Can someone explain in simple language what the usual process is when a domain name expires?