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    Domain Renewal FUBAR

    I was meant to take over a website for some people in August, but the domai expired before I took it over and the previous registrar who had to do the work to renew it and transfer the details to my name screwed it up. He missed the month grace period and didnt want to pay the charge in the second month to reclaim it...so all I could do was watch it like a hawk to get released.... I checked it twice a day for ages and as soon as it was freed it was eaten by some bot and turned into one of those really crap search pages with all the ads on. It expires again in a year, which is too long to wait, and upon e-mailing the registrars to see if I could buy it off them I got nothing back...

    Is there any suggestions to getting it back? Anyone got any experiences of am I screwed?

    Please help me!

    -Leonard

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    if the hostmaster won't respond its game over.

    I do hate those "search" pages though, I wish nominet would take them back for some sort of domain "wastage" or squatting.

    some great domain names are wasted this way
    It is Inevitable.....


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    True...

    Man, it sucks that there are bots sitting out there back ordering peoples domainsand preying off slip ups. No wonder so many .com addresses are taken, I wonder what percent of them are leeching search pages... and I wonder what percetage of hits they get are stupid enough to use them

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    Just to sum things up nicely, www.nominet.com is a crappy search page!

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    someone needs to start policing the web, thats just having a laugh
    It is Inevitable.....


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