Renewing an expired domain. Please help!

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  verymisscoca · Member · May 12, 2013 at 11:30 pm

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  Hi there – I need to renew a domain that expired two months ago. Can you please help? The domain is misscoca.com. The option to renew is no longer available in my account, it says to contact staff but it doesn’t allow me to actually request this of anyone.

  Thanks for help anyone can give me! :)

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

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  timethief · Member · May 12, 2013 at 11:33 pm

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  When your domain expired it became the possession of the Registrar who can do exactly what they wish to do with it including selling it on back order to someone or auctioning it off. Please read your options here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-expiration/

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  verymisscoca · Member · May 12, 2013 at 11:47 pm

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  Thanks timethief, I really appreciate your reply.
  I notice in this thread from last week – https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renew-an-expired-domain-4?replies=8 – the poster was able to have wordpress staff help reinstate the domain.
  I’m in the same situation, do you know how I can get the same assistance?

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  timethief · Member · May 12, 2013 at 11:53 pm

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  Of course. I’ll tag this thread for Staff support.

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  timethief · Member · May 12, 2013 at 11:54 pm

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  OH RATS! You already posted there so I’ll remove the tagging for Staff from this thread.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 13, 2013 at 12:07 am

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  misscoca.com expired on March 26.

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

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

  We attempted to inform your domain’s expiration (via email and dashboard notices). 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/misscoca.com

  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.

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  verymisscoca · Member · May 13, 2013 at 12:14 am

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  Thanks timethief and macmanx!

  Macmanx – the name on the who.is link under raw registrant data is actually me. Though of course I no longer own the domain as I let it lapse. It also comes up with Wild West Domains – is that who I should contact? Thanks again for your help.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 13, 2013 at 12:19 am

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  I’d recommend contacting Wild West Domains. It’s possible that the new owner has not changed the registrant info.

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  verymisscoca · Member · May 13, 2013 at 12:21 am

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  Will do. Thanks again for your help!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 13, 2013 at 12:22 am

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  You’re welcome!