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Ugh . . . don't let your domains expire
shmokes:
I have a domain through which all my primary email addresses are set up. I had paid to register it for two or three years, I can't remember. The email account I gave to the registrar is mostly junk and I rarely check it anymore (so I did not see the warning emails). The other day all my email accounts stopped working. My domain had expired so I tried to renew it. Not possible. The domain is in a "redemption grace period" where it is expired, but nobody but me can buy it for a period of time. Sounds nice, except it will cost $160+registration costs to reregister my domain. It's called a redemption fee. :banghead:
I can't believe this is even legal. Obviously it is extortion. It doesn't cost them anymore to register it now than it would have a month ago. Even if I could afford $160 I would not fund this crap. So now I just have to wait 30-45 days for the domain to go back on the open market and hopefully pick it up again. In the mean time I will miss many emails and I will have to go to at least a dozen sites and change my registration info so important emails go to working email accounts. Incredibly frustrating. I'm so angry.
saint:
You will not pick it up again if you don't buy it now. It will be harvested by the domain registrar or another one the microsecond the redemption period expires and will be put on the market for a bunch more than $160. You're only at the beginning of the extortion and the price tag only goes up from here.
I could be wrong, but I bet I'm not. If those domains mean anything to you buy them now.
--- saint
CheffoJeffo:
+1 to what saint said -- the only reason that you didn't lose the domain entirely yet is because it has to go through RGP.
Having said that $160 is pretty high.
ark_ader:
I will not bother and my old domain will expire in September. Yahoo Domains charges $35 for a year for renewals, and that is $35 too much (at the moment). Yet it is $45 for five years.....
It is far cheaper to register a new domain than revive an old one.
Want to know what is really interesting?
mameplanet.com is available! :applaud:
Race ya!
shmokes:
--- Quote from: saint on February 14, 2010, 02:14:50 pm ---
If those domains mean anything to you buy them now.
--- End quote ---
I hope you're wrong, but I won't do it regardless. For me it's like negotiating with terrorists. I may want my hostage back, but I will not legitimize their business practices by allowing them to make money off me in this way. I REALLY want this domain back (it's my first-name-last-name.com), but I can certainly live my life without it.
I registered the domain with the three big domain backorder companies so hopefully the second the domain goes back on the market it will get picked up by one of them. That will cost me $60 or $70 -- still more than I'd like to pay, but at least it's not so disgusting from an ethical standpoint.
If I lose the domain I will be sad, but it is a lesson learned. And I can't imagine the registrar will sit on it forever. That costs money and they're unlikely to ever sell it. They certainly will never sell it to me, and I don't have a very common name. Eventually it won't make much business sense to sit on the domain.
The only silver lining is that if I ever find myself opening my own law firm I have an idea for my first class action law suit. ;)
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