January 16, 2013 at 16:59Domains save from auctions
A curious precedent: the domain owner was able to prove that he did not manage to renew the expensive domain due to an “unintentional error”.
The most common cause of domain name loss is human forgetfulness. It is worth the domain owner to miss the due date, and the domain goes to enterprising resellers who break a considerable price for it.
However, the situation may change soon. Forgetful domain name owners will be able to withdraw the domain from the auction, if they give good reasons to justify their sclerosis.
The first use case already seems to be created in the COM domain.
January 11, 2013, the domain name Publication.com, whose registration expired, was auctioned. There was a stir around this domain: more than 170 bidders were willing to pay more than $ 3,000 for such an excellent domain, and the maximum bid could have exceeded one million dollars.
Contrary to all the rules, the auction was unexpectedly interrupted, and the domain name rights were returned to the forgetful owner. According to the rules of the GoDaddy domain registrar, domain names that have not been renewed within 25 days after the expiration of the registration period are put up for auction. 25 days are given to the owner of the domain to recover from "sclerosis", after which it is no longer possible to renew the registration of a domain name.
As it turned out later, the registration of Publication.com was renewed by court order. It states that Blake Ellman, who registered Publication.com in 1995, did not renew his registration "as a result of an unintentional error."
“Many users are really very frivolous about domain renewals,” commented Sergey Sharikov, director of the Russian domain registrar WebNames.ru. - Forgetfulness in the RU domain costs hundreds and thousands of dollars, in the COM domain - even more expensive. Perhaps the situation with Publication.com is an exception to the rule. Otherwise, many domain owners will want to defend their forgetfulness in court. ”
The most common cause of domain name loss is human forgetfulness. It is worth the domain owner to miss the due date, and the domain goes to enterprising resellers who break a considerable price for it.
However, the situation may change soon. Forgetful domain name owners will be able to withdraw the domain from the auction, if they give good reasons to justify their sclerosis.
The first use case already seems to be created in the COM domain.
January 11, 2013, the domain name Publication.com, whose registration expired, was auctioned. There was a stir around this domain: more than 170 bidders were willing to pay more than $ 3,000 for such an excellent domain, and the maximum bid could have exceeded one million dollars.
Contrary to all the rules, the auction was unexpectedly interrupted, and the domain name rights were returned to the forgetful owner. According to the rules of the GoDaddy domain registrar, domain names that have not been renewed within 25 days after the expiration of the registration period are put up for auction. 25 days are given to the owner of the domain to recover from "sclerosis", after which it is no longer possible to renew the registration of a domain name.
As it turned out later, the registration of Publication.com was renewed by court order. It states that Blake Ellman, who registered Publication.com in 1995, did not renew his registration "as a result of an unintentional error."
“Many users are really very frivolous about domain renewals,” commented Sergey Sharikov, director of the Russian domain registrar WebNames.ru. - Forgetfulness in the RU domain costs hundreds and thousands of dollars, in the COM domain - even more expensive. Perhaps the situation with Publication.com is an exception to the rule. Otherwise, many domain owners will want to defend their forgetfulness in court. ”