I was late in updating my domain and someone took it?

  • Unknown's avatar
    drakrub · Member ·

    Hello,

    I owned the website http://www.drakrub.com for my clothing company. I was overseas for several months on other company business and while I was over there my domain name expired (it completely slipped my mind). I came back and logged in. Everything was still there but when I looked at the site, it has a site selling acutane and male performance pills.

    Thinking that this was just a temporary page that wp put up (because who would want the website to my small clothing company) I paid the $10 to re-register it. I have not gotten any control over the home page and have lost my gmail account ((email visible only to moderators and staff)).

    Is this something that I will have to deal with since I did not register it in time? In that case can I get back my money for trying to re-register the domain name?

    The site is http://www.drakrub.com.

    Thank you in advance.

    Joe

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    raincoaster · Member ·

    You will have to contact staff directly ASSUMING your blog was actually hosted at WordPress.com. If it was, then you will be able to get your upgrade back.

    http://support.wordpress.com/

  • Unknown's avatar
    drakrub · Member ·

    I did all of my registering through wordpress the original time.

  • Unknown's avatar
    sandiegomaid · Member ·

    drakrub,

    Where did you log in through to see your stuff? WordPress.com? WordPress.org? Some other site (godaady.com)?

    How long ago did you let the website expire?

    According to a whois search, the website you listed (www.drakrub.com) is registered to:
    Registrant:
    Hashlog Ltd

    306 Victoria House
    Victoria, Mahe –
    Seychelles

    Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
    Domain Name: DRAKRUB.COM
    Created on: 16-Apr-08
    Expires on: 16-Apr-10
    Last Updated on: 02-Jun-09

    If this isn’t you than you did not register this this URL. You might have paid for your hosting, but you might have lost your domain name.

  • Unknown's avatar
    thesacredpath · Member ·

    His domain registration of that domain name which had been registered through wordpress.COM had lapsed.

  • Unknown's avatar
    drakrub · Member ·

    I would always log in through wordpress.com. The website was expired for about a month before I tried to renew it.

    That address from the whois is not me. I’m assuming that some company bought the name when mine expired.

    In terms of paying wordpress, I was looking at my receipt from paypal and the receipt code is “renew_map_26276″…can I change the address to lets say drakrubapparel.com?

    If I can, how do I do that?

  • tellyworth · Staff ·

    If you contact support staff they’ll do their best to help you out:

    Contact

    Please note that we have no control over expired domains – that’s all controlled by ICANN and the domain registrars, and they don’t let us do anything to recover a domain once it’s expired.

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