Renewal late fee
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Hi There,
I’m not sure if anyone will be able to assist, but after being away from the blogosphere with a new job, I’ve returned to working for myself and have been tidying up my page – and discovered that the web address I bought no longer connects to my blog! I did receive an email alert about the imminent expiry, but I didn’t realize that a late fee would apply for re-connection. As a self-employed artist, the $80 fee is a nasty surprise and I can’t really afford it at this time. Is there anything that can be done at all?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No. That fee is the fee charged by the registrar you purchased the domain name from – not by WordPress.com. WordPress.com charges only for domain mapping.
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That would be fine, except this recent thread seems to imply some discretion?
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewal-late-fee?replies=4e
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P.S. Here’s some unsolicited advice from a self-employed artist with over 28 years of self employment experience. Playing the starving student card is not a good plan. Even high-school kids know that if you do not make your car payment, furniture payments, house payments then what you think you owned is history. As soon as you allow anything on time payments to expire it belongs to the car dealership, the furniture supplier or the bank respectively, and there are always redemption fees that need to be paid to secure the item again.
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There is no discretion. WordPress.com does not set the redemption fee. The registrar does. More to the point the registrar does not have to offer the domain name for sale, can auction it off and can even sell it to a domain name squatter. Domain name squatting is a HUGE industry.
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Nothing is stopping you from trying Kickstarter or Indiegogo, but note that fundraisers for “I screwed up my administration and now I need eighty bucks” are less successful than others. Still, it’s only eighty bucks.
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P.S. Maybe the grace period has not expired yet and the domain is not yet in redemption. I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.
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@subadasdirects
Oops! I forgot to ask you to post the expired domain URL for Staff. Please do that now. -
Your domain subadasdirects.com expired on February 11. Before it expired, we sent email warnings and displayed notifications on your dashboard.
Domain expiration is a lengthy and complicated process that takes about 80 days. During this time, your domain may be put up for auction or sold on back-order. You can learn more about expired domains here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-expiration/
The good news is that we may still be able to recover your domain if it has not yet been deleted or purchased by someone else. A late renewal fee of $80 will be added to the regular price of renewal. This fee is charged by the domain registry and is not one which we can waive.
Please let me know if you’d like to proceed.
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Yes, that’s fine – can this be processed immediately – it has occurred to me that emails being sent to the domain are presumably being bounced back at the moment.
Thanks.
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I have sent an email to the address on your account with further details.
Please reply to the email when payment has been made.
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