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A cautionary tale

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Weaver:
A year or so ago I missed out on a domain name renewal email for domain "tlachd.com". A nuisance operator called namebright then grabbed it and is charging over $2600 to release it. So check that your renewal email addresses are correct and that there’s no problem with spam filters. I think what went wrong there was that the renewal email address was wrong - I had confused the email address with one for something else, though it was a potential target for nuisance marketing junk and had quoted a nonsense email address of no-spam@example.com in place of a useable email address. A potentially very expensive mistake - I’m not paying, they can whistle for their money, I just retired the domain and switched usage to a different tld ‘extension’ (which isn’t the correct term - first level domain label or whatever).

burakkucat:
Oops.  :(

Weaver:
I just wanted to warn others to be careful, and review/test the mechanism for getting renewal warnings.

Ronski:
Do you not have an auto renew option? All of mine are set to automatically renew, just one provider at work has issues where they seem to take the direct debit after the domains expired, then renew it which is worrying.

Weaver:
I’m not entirely sure what went wrong. The contact email address was certainly wrong, I suspect that if the domain name was set to auto-renew, it may have been that an old credit card was recorded with expired details. It was a while back and I’m unsure of the precise details.   I’m moving domain names to be both registered and served by Andrews and Arnold who will just bill domain renewal costs to my monthly account so no future danger due to cards going bad. AA will provide email services, dns, registration and web hosting for anyone, regardless of whether or not you buy internet access from them, so I think that’s going to be the safest option for critical domain names for me.

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