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Steve J
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Posted: 6th May 2006 05:01
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I swear this is illegal, but here is the story. My credit card was unusable for the month, because I made an insanely large purchase (new car), and so I couldnt pay the renewal fee. So Next month it was in redemption, and They said I had to wait. Well this month, the day after I deleted it from MY ACCOUNT, it was registered by some bogus site: http://www.goserveyourdomain.com . BS I say, but is this legal?

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dark coder
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Posted: 6th May 2006 07:58
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well if it expired then anyone can buy it so how can it be illegal?

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 6th May 2006 15:01
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If you let it expire, of course it's legal.

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Steve J
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Posted: 6th May 2006 20:23 Edited at: 6th May 2006 20:24
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What happened was, they stated CLEARLY to me, that it would take a day for it to be unregistered. An exact day. So I checked about 5 hours the next day, before I had unregistered it the last day (Ie, I unregistered 8pm the day before, and I checked if it was unregistered at 3pm), and I had just gotten the email saying it would be unregistered, but suddenly it was bought and registered to another company before it was supposed to be finished. I checked again today, same thing:X.

edit: I just got an "offer" from these people who bought the domain (even though I never emailed them), to get the domain for $50.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 6th May 2006 20:30
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Quote: "edit: I just got an "offer" from these people who bought the domain (even though I never emailed them), to get the domain for $50."

It's common.

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Steve J
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Posted: 6th May 2006 20:47
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really?

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Jeku
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Posted: 6th May 2006 21:44
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There are many people, myself included, that have the ability to jump on domains the second they're on the market. This is through software, third parties, etc. If somebody wanted that domain, they can see that it expires soon and they setup their software/third party to take it, literally, the *second* it's up for grabs.


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Steve J
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Posted: 6th May 2006 21:45
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wow. Intresting. I guess I just have to forward my site to a new domain.

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