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Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I guess this is a cautionary tale.

I was recently having issues with my Gmail account that's tied to my Epik ( a domain registrar ) account, so when I was supposed to renew my domain, I didn't receive any e-mails about it. When I decided to randomly check on my website, it seemed to be down. So I checked Epik and a domain that usually cost £15 a year to renew now cost £400 to renew as it was expired.

As a teenager who does not have £400 to spend on a domain, I decided to just wait until the domain fully expired and buy it for a cheaper price.

After some time, the domain fully expired and GoDaddy decided to buy it as soon as it did, and charged me £2,225 to renew the domain. I don't understand how a price that large is justified, considering that my website gets barely any visitors and I basically only use the domain for hosting stuff. No idea how hiking prices this much is legal

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Just because you don't have a website up at [XYZ].com doesn't mean you're not using it. You could have a domain controller on the back end doing file services, or you could be using it for network auth, etc. Not all .coms exist for the purpose of putting up a website.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Neither do .dk domains, but in order to determine use the courts will have to be involved. I haven't heard about a lot of those cases, but I'd guess you can prove use against the person who wants to take the domain. If I have a domain called firstnamelastname.dk it'd be pretty easy to show that I got a mail address at contact@firstnamelastname.dk that's in use.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I own 8 domains. Only one has HTTP/S ports open. The rest are for email and other services.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Other services will be reflected by active DNS records.

    If the only DNS record points to a "Buy this domain" webpage, I think it's fair to argue that is misuse.
    Doubley so if it turns out many unrelated domains are owned by and point to the same webpage, and it's just doing a js hostname thing to make it seem relevant to the current address

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