@ahasty @esther_alter I also use cloudflare domains these days. Treated me well so far.

@ahasty @esther_alter grace period isn’t a constant across registrars, I’ve used one or two across the years that both wouldn’t send renewal emails and gave no grace period. I think name.com may only be five days.

name.com has also been accused of domain tasting before. Wouldn’t surprise me if they aren’t going out of their way to protect their customers.

@esther_alter yes.

Godaddy is like the DNS mafia. They should be shut down for market manipulation.

Fuck godaddy.

@esther_alter godaddy runs a service called “DNS broker”, which is explicitly for buying domains “already registered” (in this case, and probably most or all cases, owned by them). They want you to go there and ask to buy it back.

@esther_alter @astraluma curious as to where you see a broker option.

The domain is indeed owned by godaddy and the registry was updated earlier this month, it’s plausible that you let the domain lapse without realizing it. godaddy is the scum of domain registrars, they watch domain lists so they can buy them immediately when they go up for registration again and then try to sell it back at wildly inflated rates.

@astraluma @esther_alter fuck godaddy indeed.