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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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It's legal because they bought the domain and they can charge whatever price they want if you want to buy it from them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

An .xyz domain? Nothing in that TLD is worth having, xyz domains are blacklisted by half the email providers by default.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My emails seemed to go through pretty well. It's been blocked by Discord and steam. But other than that, emails seem to go through pretty well.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I am sorry that happened to you

Thanks for sharing your story, though. I have a few domains, two of them being very important for me (one I use for all my emails, and the other one for all my self hosted stuff). So I'll be paying close attention to their renewal

I hope you can find another domain that you like and that you can transfer your stuff to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I'm glad I don't care about the domain name. Just something easy to remember but I can always change it and tell the fam.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I had a domain I bought from Namecheap like a decade ago and they're still emailing me about the one I let expire lmao.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

[Thread #877 for this sub, first seen 19th Jul 2024, 00:15] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Wow, I'm glad I have auto-renew enabled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I wonder how much sungloct0.xyz costs!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

*any email

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