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Ugh . . . don't let your domains expire
Havok:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 14, 2010, 07:19:49 pm ---I REALLY want this domain back (it's my first-name-last-name.com), but I can certainly live my life without it.
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I am so stealing this domain from you, I've always wanted to have pimple-mcstiltskin.com for my very own!
shmokes:
The world became a bit less dismal today. The backorder worked. :applaud: I'm the master of my domain again. ;D
I am very glad I did not cave and pay the $160 my registrar was charging during the redemption period. It caused me quite a lot of headache, but it's only been about a month and a half and I'm very glad that my old registrar did not get any money out of me (and never will again). FWIW, the registrar is PowWeb, which is one of Tucows registrars.
So my mistake cost me $60, but this is $60 for a legitimate service. It sucks to spend that much to register a domain for one year, but at least it's fair and is a bargain compared to the extortion my former registrar was pulling.
jfunk:
Congrats. Glad it worked out.
I played with the backordering stuff on my hosting provider (godaddy).. Forgot to change my backorder to something I really wanted, so ended up with a year of a fairly ridiculous domain name.. Oh, well, wasn't much $, fortunately.. :)
SavannahLion:
Congrats on getting your domain back. Who are you going to go with once the year is up?
After this thread, I decided to look a little deeper into what would happen if I was caught in the same situation as Shmokes. Two of my domains go up for renewal next year. I still haven't found the info anywhere on my registrar's site, but I did discover some things I never really thought about. First, from a second hand source, it would cost me $200 if I were to try and revive it. Yikes!
I also found out my provider is Enom (funny my host never mentions that anywhere that I've seen)
And Enom isn't exactly listed at Verisign (I think), neither is Powweb for that matter. I need to look into it more, I'm running a bit of a fever. But am I missing something here? Aren't top level registrars supposed to be well... registered somewhere and everyone else eg Tucows, just resellers?
shmokes:
I'm not sure. Moniker.com is who got my domain back for me. I actually feel a little affinity to them for that. But I'm going to check with them and see what they charge for redemption and stuff like that. If they're legit I'll probably pay for a decade of registration (which would cost $80 through them). I think it can be had cheaper elsewhere, though, so it mostly comes down to whether I think I'm dealing with honest people.
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