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uh. what?

• euroclear 4y ago
  I'm not sure about Godaddy, but on Gandi you can definitely pay to extend someone else's domain name. https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/renew/how_to_renew.html https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/renew/how_to_renew.ht...
  • JohnHaugeland 4y ago
    That's wild. I had had no idea.
• andreareina 4y ago
  Happened to microsoft: https://slashdot.org/story/99/12/25/114201/microsoft-hotmailpassport-service-interruptedupdated https://slashdot.org/story/99/12/25/114201/microsoft-hotmail...
  • maccard 4y ago
    Thats not the same thing. The domain lapsed and someone else bought it, which is exactly what is going to happen to eth.link according to this post.
    • andreareina 4y ago
      From the horses mouth: > I read through the discussion area for that story and found that the problem had been tracked down to an outstanding invoice for passport.com at Network Solutions, the domain name registrar. > I own a number of domains myself, including doublewide.net, so I'm no stranger to the payment system at Network Solutions. I went to the payment page at https://payments.networksolutions.com https://payments.networksolutions.com and typed in "passport.com", after which I was greeted with a page showing the outstanding invoice for $35. One of the buttons near the bottom of the page was "Make payment", so I pressed it. https://web.archive.org/web/20031002153020/http://www.doublewide.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20031002153020/http://www.double...
      • guiambros 4y ago
        Ha, what a great story; thanks for sharing. > On Tuesday, December 28 I heard from Microsoft. I was happy to hear that the payment did fix Passport, and of course they wanted to reimburse me, and thank me. With companies so lawyer-ed up, I wonder if that would be the case today. I'd be very hesitant before hitting submit in that payment page.
      • maccard 4y ago
        Too late to edit, thats a wild story, thanks for sharing it!