Buy back domain

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  tai0333 · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 9:47 am

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  Hi,

  how do I purchase my domain which WordPress owns now? who can I call?

  Alvin

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  micawbr · Member · Oct 25, 2015 at 11:53 am

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  Hi Alvin,
  What is the name of the domain?

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  tai0333 · Member · Oct 25, 2015 at 10:23 pm

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  http://www.academicsoflife.com

  would you please assist me? thank you

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 25, 2015 at 10:34 pm

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  It looks like you did not renew academicsoflife.com – and it is in redemption – you will need help from the staff to retrieve the name and there will be an extra charge from the Registrar to renew it

  I have flagged this for the staff to help

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Oct 26, 2015 at 3:23 am

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  Hi there,

  I’ll be happy to contact the registrar to see if we can restore academicsoflife.com to your account, but I cannot guarantee that we will be able to get the domain back. If I am successful, I can send you a manual payment request form for you to repurchase the domain.

  I will let you know once I hear back from the registrar.

  Let me know if you have any questions.

  Thanks!

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  tai0333 · Member · Oct 26, 2015 at 10:29 am

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  Thank you very much. Please keep me posted.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Oct 27, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  Hi Alvin,

  I was able to talk to the registrar and the domain is in redemption, but we can get it out. Before doing so, I wanted to verify that you are okay with the redemption fee of ($80) in addition to the price of renewing the domain ($18). If so, I can send you a manual payment for those costs and will retrieve the domain from our registrar.

  Let me know.

  Thanks!

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  tai0333 · Member · Oct 27, 2015 at 9:55 pm

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  yes I am willing to pay the fee stated above.

  Thank you very much.

  Alvin

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 28, 2015 at 5:26 pm

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  Hi Alvin, I’m sending you a payment link now via email. Thanks!

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  tai0333 · Member · Oct 28, 2015 at 8:59 pm

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  Supernovia,

  Thank you very much. I will wait for your email.

  Alvin

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 28, 2015 at 9:32 pm

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  Actually I sent it about four hours ago. Can you search your mail for anything from WordPress.com ?

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 28, 2015 at 9:33 pm

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  In gmail you would use “in:all wordpress” (without quotes) to search everything, even the spam folders if it thinks the payment link was spam.