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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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by sunglocto 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] 2 points 5 months ago

I wonder how much sungloct0.xyz costs!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Almost had that situation too, with Namecheap. It told me it would be renewed soon (1 month, 1 week, 5 days, 3 days, 24 hours etc.), but I didn't realize that would only work when using a credit card for payment, and with other methods you'd need credit on the account. Luckily I realized what happened, and contacted CS, during the grace period they provide for some (not all, but luckily .de too) TLDs. Costed a few bucks extra, but not much. And in the end, I could just buy 30p87.com or something different as backup. I might do that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

*any email

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