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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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by sunglocto@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[-] miau@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 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.

[-] femtech@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

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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[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 4 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.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 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.

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 3 points 4 months ago

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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