On 2022-07-22 19:01, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > In my experience, when a domain goes up for grabs, the registrar > basically usurps it and auctions it off with first right of refusal > having it under their stewardship in the first place as registrar. I > saw this with butash.com [1], of which I own .net and .org, but the > dude that owned .com was old, and I think died finally. I had a > godaddy domain update and saw it go up for sale as an auction on > verisign, where he had it registered all these years (guess he never > heard he could get a much better deal elsewhere). Some dude outbid me > for like 700 bucks, said screw it, not that much worth it. Some year > or so later had a buddy hit him up (so as not from butash.net [2] for > obvious value), but the scab came back "we'll start bidding at $35K". > He's been sitting on it since as I didn't put his kids through college > and apparently no one else in my lineage has either. > There is a couple domains I'd like to get that are being held w/o being used. A domain is only what someone is willing to pay for it. > So yes, verisign, godaddy, etc will all grab your shiz and sell it out > from under you if they can, then the domain hoarder scabs soak them up > hoping someone wants it back bad enough. Vermin, the whole lot, like > zombies roaming the streets for brains. I was working at godaddy when > Parsons figured out it'd be a huge market to do domain auctions and > started that back in the day. I thought it was scummy having worked > for him then, and didn't work for him much longer after. I worked for GD in the very early days. Learned a lot and got a bunch of experience talking tech to non-technical people. Helped me tremendously when I started freelancing. The GD experience was hell though. Back then they fired people for little cause and the call center manager was a bully. The thing I am really wondering about is how this dude was able to transfer my friends website and content from my friend's hosting to his hosting. This has to be a copyright violation. What say you? > > -mb > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 6:45 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a friend who owned http://www.nationwidedr.com/ . It expired >> >> along with his hosting while he was in the hospital. >> >> I get the domain was available to be registered. >> >> Here is the interesting part. Somehow the new domain owner also was >> >> able to get his WordPress website complete with all of his business >> content. It appears not to have been changed. >> >> The other part is the domain shows it was registered in 2002, the >> original date it was registered. I thought when a domain expires >> and is >> re-registered by another it will show it was original registered on >> that >> second date. Am I wrong? >> >> Thoughts on how the new registrant got a hold of my friends >> WordPress >> website? >> >> The domain and hosting were at GoDaddy. >> >> Something seems fishy - am I wrong? >> >> Thanks!! >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://butash.com > [2] http://butash.net > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss