Can't buy a domain that I let expire

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  notrightmineded · Member · May 11, 2011 at 1:44 am

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  Hello,

  I owned the url http://www.notrightmined.com for my business through godaddy.com for many years, but I let it expire only two months ago. I have changed my mind and want it, but when I try to registrar it on wordpress.com it say someone owns it. I checked on godaddy.com and I can buy it according to them. Any ideas why I can’t buy it through wordpress.com?

  Thanks for the help,
  Leia

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2011 at 2:16 am

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  We Volunteers can’t respond to this kind of issue. I’ll flag this thread so it gets Staff attention.

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  airodyssey · Member · May 11, 2011 at 2:20 am

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  notrightmined.com is not registered… but notrightminded.com is registered already by a domain name reseller. If that’s the case, I doubt WordPress.com can do anything for you to get that domain name back.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2011 at 2:50 am

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  If a domain name reseller has picked it up, that’s bad news. Most times they will want multiple hundred and even thousands of dollars for them

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2011 at 2:54 am

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  I removed the tag.

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  notrightmineded · Member · May 11, 2011 at 12:08 pm

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  Thanks for the information everyone. I think you are right that a domain name reseller has it. Godaddy.com wants $280 for it now. I am guessing they picked it up just because it had been used. I guess I will just change to .net instead :)