Expired domain with 1&1
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I had a domain registered with 1&1 – zigzaghockey.com – which I allowed to expire. Subsequently on 24th May 2018 I terminated my acccount with 1&1. My previous domain name is out there somewhere in the ether and I cannot find away to get it active again and registered with WordPress. I can’t transfer from 1&1 because as I have no account I cannot log into one to start the process.
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I provide the wrong account termination date above. My account with 1&1 was terminated on 24th May 2017 – so more than a year ago.
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Hi there,
The moment you allowed that domain to expire at 1&1, you ceased being the owner of the domain and lost all claim to it. After passing through the expiration grace period and the redemption period, that domain was eventually removed from 1&1’s account and deleted at the registry, which made it available for anyone else to buy.
Looking at the Whois information for that domain, that is exactly what happened – on 4 April 2018 that domain was registered at NameBright.com by an organization called Hugedomains.com, a domain squatter who buys up recently-expired domains in order to sell them back to the original owners at a profit.
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=zigzaghockey.com
This is entirely legal – you allowed the domain to expire meaning you stopped owning it, and the current owner bought it and can now do with it whatever they want.
If you still want to use that domain, your only option is to buy it back directly from the current owner. We cannot assist with that, though we do advise you to use a reputable domain broker to handle the transaction, should you decide to do that, as many domain squatters are also scam artists who might take your money and never transfer the domain to you if you deal with them directly.
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Kokkieh,
Thanks for doing that research. I guess I will have to go with a different ‘flavour’ of ‘zigzaghockey’ Pity, I owned that domain from 1987 onward, spent a lot of money keeping it and never used it to open a website – although I did use it as a trading name and trade mark when I was selling ZigZag hockey sticks. The zigzag hockey stick design was patented to me but that expired in 2003 so keeping the name is really just a habit.
Regards
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Sorry to hear that. Maybe they’ll let the domain expire so you can buy it back next time. Good luck!
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Supernova,
How would I know if it had been let expire and who would I then buy it from if nobody owned a registration ?
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Hi there,
If you look at the WHOIS information in the link below, the domain expires on April 4, 2019:
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=zigzaghockey.com
If the current owner doesn’t renew it will expire and then you could register it again.
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