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[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ICANN has an Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP) that requires your registrar to give your domain a 30-day grace period before deleting the records. ERRP also requires them to shutdown your DNS resolutions 8 days before deletion.

You’d have to be really mismanaging your domain if you miss all the required email reminders and don’t notice your domain has been non functional for a couple of days.

[–] db2@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Microsoft and Google have both done it, but what do they know? 🤣

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh really? Haven’t heard that one, back in the day or something?

[–] physicswizard@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah some dude bought the google.com domain via some glitch a while back. Here's a story about it.

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] cdiv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. Microsoft let hotmail lapse once. Someone paid for the renewal for them. https://slashdot.org/story/00/01/18/1645224/microsoft-hotmail-domain-reward-check-on-ebay