Originally Posted by d-null

no, I had put up a "this domain may be for sale" thing on it, but never heard word from them, I took that off after a few months

it appears that whoever was responsible for not renewing it may have been embarrassed and under tight budgets or something and later they put up their old content under a different brand new domain name which is not as good (which is not getting much google love as my site has over ten years age on it and is still ranking way above them for their own keywords, and my placeholder content is ambiguous enough that it fits the content relevance well)

using the term "government agency" may be a bit of a misnomer, it was not a .gov, but it was a .org by an agency that works within government funding and coordinating civic government and state government programs