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How did you lose it? Did you let the domain expire and fail to renew?

• rhacker 7y ago
  That's what I want to know. Is a domain easy to steal like an Amazon package on a porch... we kinda need to know!
  • carty76ers 7y ago
    No it’s not that easy. This was human error. You can setup auto renewal, pay for 10 years in advance, check for email reminders, or set a calendar reminder, or all of the above. Seems OP failed to do all those (though apparently the email forwarded service they were using didn’t work).
• keenmaster 7y ago
  It sucks that you can lose your domain over something as trivial as forgetting to update your credit card information. I use Google Domains, and thankfully they are pretty good at notifying me about upcoming events related to my domain.
  • BrandoElFollito 7y ago
    I lost my domain that way when I was beginning with internet. I set the reminder to my company email, left, and then the notifications stayed to come (and bounce). All rookie mistakes I learnt from but still painful when you discover at Christmas that your email is not functional.
• reimertz 7y ago
  No. It’s definitely my own fault. Notifications was sent to another domain that expired that was created using the “google get a domain, email, docs, sheets whatever at the same time”. Forwarded emails stopped getting forwarded. Sadly, I usually check my domains every now and then, but because the new owner copy-pasted my site, I couldn’t tell when doing a quick visual check. It was after the 3 months grace period I realized there was some spam on the page. I reached out to godaddy to get told someone else bought it through their “auction service” once I missed my window and that was it. So I deserved it, for sure. Just never thought I would end up getting bamboozled, someone copy-paste my site to make it look legit past the grace period.
  • tzs 7y ago
    It might be worth talking to a lawyer about this who is familiar with domain ownership issues and with IP. I wasn't able to find any registered trademark (in the US) for "brand-colors", "brand-colors.com", or "brand colors", but a very brief look at the ICANN trademark dispute rules did not turn up any requirement that it be a registered trademark. Maybe I just missed that part, but if I didn't you might be able to get it back on trademark grounds. The usual hard part of this is showing that the person who has the domain registered now is using it in bad faith. In your case, the fact that the first thing they did was put up a copy of your site, almost certainly in violation of copyright, and then changed links to ones to make themselves money from people thinking they were at your site should be enough to easily show bad faith.
    • chrismcb 7y ago
      It is an open source project, so no copyright issues. And the op stopped paying for the domain. I don't see any legal leg to stand on here.