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This just happened to me a month ago, I was waiting for a unused domain to expire. The domain was hosted on Epik (which I think is a trashy company but w/e).

About a month before expiration it somehow got renewed for 10 years, which is weird because it was not available ... and is now hosting a "get-rich-quick" scam that pretends to be a genuine Petro Canada campaign.

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> About a month before expiration it somehow got renewed for 10 years, which is weird because it was not available

I've seen some domain registrars auctioning off domains during the last 2-4 weeks before they expire. If nobody buys it, then it actually expires and is then released.

Which registrars? I would want to avoid those.

At the end of the day, no matter your domain, ICANN can just take it for their VC bros. Happened to a friend of mine that owned a pretty novel domain name that a certain social media company wanted. He refused to sell. ICANN and his registrar just transferred it out from under him. Gone. See ya.

Wow. In light of this it's amazing that Mr. Nissan (RIP) and later his heirs managed to not only retain control of nissan.com, but regain it after it was stolen years after his passing.

Money talks

Out of curiosity, what was the domain?

You gotta name the domain!

I'd rather not face the ire of ICANN, sorry.

I know better. They read this site. They know that all it takes is some company to issue some trademark litigation and they fold. No basis, no question, just here you go.

what would they do to you...?

Oh you sweet summer child, you haven’t met their lawyers…

well, condescension aside, literally what would they do? there's nothing remotely illegal about posting the name of a site in a forum. and here you are trying to get me to be as scared as you are about posting a basic fact in a forum and why would I be?

There's a difference between trademark issues and your registrar auctioning off the name

Unless you prove you had the trademark first and they did it anyway.

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