Comment on A domain I like has expired, how do I go about registering it for myself?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
Contact ionos support and ask what they recommend in this scenario.
Unfortunately, it’s entirely possible that some third party domain scraper bought it already and will try to sell it back to you for a premium.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Thanks,
I hope that's not the case, but if it is they can keep it, I'm not going to support those kinds of practices
styanax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been watching a domain name for years (15?) - it is a “funny prop from a niche movie” in the 90s that nobody even remembers and it’s length isn’t short etc., a name only a real nerd would even know (poilte cough). I’ve watched this domain pass from squatter to sqatter over the years, it doesn’t sell but keeps getting picked up as soon as it expires at the previous squatter. The dotcom domain registry system is completely broken in favour of crony capitalism.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The age of the internet really left an impact.
My name has an accent in one of the letters, there is no way I'm going to give my kid a name like that, just because Computers. Would have loved to use name.surname more but yea both are common so there are thousands of us, never been able to do that.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
Yeah it would suck. Happened to a webforum I used to be active in after like ten years. We also switched to a similar domain.
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Contacting the registrar is worth a shot and could be your best bet. I recently did a similar thing except the expiring domain was on a pretty obscure country-TLD with only one registrar. They told me how long the grace period was and then I setup a script to check the availability every minute and alert me when it came up.
Probably not feasible with a .com or similar but they might be able to help in some regard.