Domain name has expired

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  jenniefish · Member · Sep 18, 2015 at 1:01 am

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  Hi, the domain name for my blog has expired and past the 90 days period, which means it has been released into the ‘pool’. The message I am getting on my dashboard is ‘We are currently trying to redeem your domain’. Is there anything that I can do, or do I have to wait until something happens and just keep checking in? I would like to renew it.

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

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 18, 2015 at 1:16 am

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  I have flagged this for the staff to help – sometimes old domains will stick in the system and mess things up for you

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Sep 18, 2015 at 4:52 am

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  I’m seeing that domain has been registered at another registrar:

  http://who.is/whois/theentertainingbusiness.com

  Did you register it there?

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  jenniefish · Member · Sep 18, 2015 at 2:02 pm

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  No I didn’t register it anywhere. I missed my renewal and then when I went back to it, I just found the ‘currently trying to redeem your domain’ message. Thanks for any help.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Sep 18, 2015 at 3:59 pm

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  I’m afraid there is nothing we can do at this point. Someone else has snatched it up.

  You could try contacting the person who registered it and seeing if they would sell/give it back to you. But if a domain squatter has registered it, that may be an expensive proposition.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 18, 2015 at 4:07 pm

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  Clicking on the name goes to a page indicating your old name has been grabbed by a *&@#^%$!*> Squatter and the name is for sale –