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, 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
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.

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.

-mb


On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 6:45 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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!!
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