How do I renew an expired domain?
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I let the domain expire, and now have recanted of that error. I would like to renew the domain of grapholalia.com, which expired November 7th. Please let me know what I need to do, if it’s still available.
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Unfortunately, your domain expired over a month ago.
Expired domains become the property of our registrar partner and are returned to the public market at their discretion.
I can check to see if it’s recoverable, but they may charge an extra fee.
Would you like you me to check?
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Yes, please. If there are extra charges, just let me know what they are; I could just leave the blog at the default wordpress address.
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I just heard back and your domain is in redemption. You have three options for recovering an expired domain:
1) Pay WordPress.com $97.00 to reactive the domain. This includes an annual subscription to the WordPress.com domain mapping and registration upgrades. We have no control over the additional cost as it is levied on us by our domain registrar.
2) Go to http://pool.com/ register there and place the domain on backorder. As soon as the name becomes available Pool will try to get it for you. The domain would cost a minimum of $60 from there.
3) Another alternative is to just wait, hope no one else buys it and get it again for $17.00.
If you want to be 100% sure of getting your domain back, you must use the first option. Please login to http://paypal.com/ and pay (email visible only to moderators and staff) US$97.00, and mark the payment “For renewal of domain: grapholalia.com” and reply to this. We will contact our domain registrar who will reactive your domain within a few days, if not hours.
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