Help! My website/domain has been taken over by 'sexy girl' :(

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  nothingholyabouthatred · Member · Aug 10, 2013 at 11:46 am

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  I ran a campaign called Nothing Holy About Hatred and purchased the domain name through yourselves last year- then changed jobs and the campaign went dormant. Now the site has been taken over by a Chinese porn website. I think I probably didn’t renew the domain name in time and perhaps it has been bought by others, or else they have hacked into my account- I don’t know.

  Please please please tell me there is something we can do to get it back so the address goes to my wordpress site again?!

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  nothingholyabouthatred · Member · Aug 10, 2013 at 12:03 pm

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  Here’s the error message I get when I try to renew the domain name:

  Your domain nothingholyabouthatred.org is registered with us, but expired on June 13, 2013 – 2 months ago.

  Please contact WordPress.com Support for more information about renewing this domain.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 12, 2013 at 11:26 am

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  Hi there,

  Unfortunately, we no longer control the domain nothingholyabouthatred.org and cannot renew it for you. All of your content is still available through this URL: http://nothingholyabouthatred.wordpress.com/

  I removed the expired domain upgrade from your account, to avoid further confusion.

  It was possible to recover the domain for some weeks after its expiration, but because of the time lapsed, the domain was sent back to the registrar who then sold it to a new owner. This support article describes the expiration process in detail, if you are interested: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-expiration/

  Here is the publicly available contact information of the new domain owner: http://who.is/whois/nothingholyabouthatred.org

  You could try contacting them to see if they will sell the domain to you. Please be sure to use a reputable online purchasing site for this transaction, if it happens.

  I am sorry I was not able to help you more in this case.