Expired Domain but it's still payed for
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When I go into my DNS is says my domain is expired but I looked at WhoIsIt website and it says my domain expires Jan 2017. How is it expired but still payed for? Is there a way you can fix that status? How can I access my dns settings?
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Hi there,
Is this for the domain, junaebenne.com?
That domain expired on 31 January. After it expired the registrar sold it at auction and it now belongs to someone else. That is why the Whois shows it expired in 2017 – that’s when it expires for the current owner who bought it in March. You won’t be able to add that domain to your account again as you no longer own it.
How is it expired but still payed for?
The only payment I can see in your billing history is from when you bought that domain in January 2015. You did not renew it in January 2016, which is why it expired.
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But they’re still using my content. How can I contact them so they can give me my content back?
I think this auction is a huge scam. How do you sell my website domain and the person is still using my content? The content shouldn’t go with the domain. All they did was put pictures onto my website. SO! Who can I contact to get it back since what you want is the money.
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As your content is not with us I can’t answer that. According to the domain’s DNS you were not using that domain with a WordPress.com site, but a self-hosted site hosted on dnsimple.com. Your content is with them, so you’ll need to contact them to access your site. I have no way of knowing why the new owner of the domain left the domain pointing to your site. I don’t even know who the new owner is.
I think this auction is a huge scam.
It is not a scam. It’s how domain expirations work. Once a domain passes out of the initial grace period it enters redemption. During redemption the domain registrar can sell it to anyone else, and that’s what happened here. Your domain was sold in March. At that point you lost any chance of recovering it. The entire process is explained here:
Who can I contact to get it back since what you want is the money.
You can try contacting the registrar, Wild West Domains, but that will be a waste of time. They won’t tell you who the current owner of the domain is, as that would be against the law. The current owner also has private registration enabled, so you can’t find out their contact information from the public Whois database.
There is no way to get that domain back, period. The moment it was sold at auction in March you lost that domain. It is no longer in our system, and the registrar will not restore it back to you or to us under any circumstances, as someone else now owns it.
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I never used DNSimple.com. I used WordPress.com. I registered it here, WordPress must have passed it onto DNSimple.com without my knowledge nor consent. My name is trademarked, you can’t sell trademarks.
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Your domain expired on 31 January 2016. At that point you stopped being the owner of the domain and lost all legal claim you have on it. Whether your name is trademarked or not does not make any difference. If you stop paying for a domain you stop being its owner and the registrar who sold you the domain can do whatever they like with it.
We did not sell your domain to anyone. The domain registrar did, after it expired, as is their right as the domain registrar. At the time they sold it we lost any ability we had to get the domain back for you.
You bought the domain from WordPress.com, but your site is not with us. The only site you have on WordPress.com is https://junaebenne.wordpress.com/, which is not the same site as the one showing at your domain. You bought the domain from us, but set up a site with dnsimple.com using the self-hosted WordPress software.
Your domain does not belong to dnsimple.com. They, like us, are a hosting provider. They don’t own your domain. Your domain is simply pointing to them, to the site that is hosted on their servers. The only way to get access to that site is to contact them.
I realise this is frustrating, but your best course of action is to make peace with the fact that your domain is gone and to move on. That domain no longer belongs to you, because you did not pay to renew it 8 months ago. There is nothing more that can be done.
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Slow down there bucky, my domain was in my account until I contacted you and I can always buy my domain back. I just checked account and it no longer says JunaeBenne.com expired. Sooo, I need some truthful answers right now.
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I have given you all the facts in this matter. That domain has not been in your WordPress.com account since 13 March when it was sold by our registrar at auction. It now belongs to someone else and is not available for registration at any registrar. Your domain is gone, and has been since March.
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