Losing my domain and next getting it back
June 1, 2008 · Print This Article
I nearly lost my domain permanently considering I was unaware it was expiring. I got an sharp from our new Registrant watchful system on DomainTools and it saved my ass. I am extremely thankful we invented that system. It is nice to have an example I can point to so soon after launching the service. The sharp told me that “Registercom” now owned my domain. That was a huge tip off that the registrar was about to delete my domain. I had won the domain in a Snapnames auction in 2007 and it was sitting at Register.com detail that Snapnames opened for me considering they Register.com was the old registrar. I normally keep at one registrar that has an auto-renew feature and nothing in my detail deletes. However I didn’t remember to transfer that domain by to my normal registrar after I won the domain in the auction.
With that Registrant watchful I was able to see I had lost the domain, so therefore and was able to quickly act and get the domain back by renewing it. It would have sucked whether I had needed to go to auction to get my domain back. When buying domains at multiple registrar I would highly recommend setting an careful on yourself.
Registrant Alert
The system spots strings that are Newly place on a whois record which were not on the previous historical record.? The system now supports the exact opposite too; It will watchful you whether your strings get removed from a current whois record. I have set a few alerts on public domainers and I see when they buy or sell domains.
[Source] Jay Westerdal





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