Is this new bs from Godaddy?..
 

Hey everyone. I had a blog that I made when I was bored but abandoned, stonedquotes.com, and expired since I didn't renew it..

So, the site was down for a few days, up to a month I don't know, but now the site is back up and is registered to just Godaddy according to whois..

Why would they put the site back up?...

Have you renewed it yet?

btw, it's a blogger blog and the name servers were probably unchanged, but still..

No, it doesn't make much money ever since I stopped selling hookahs..

Maybe they are cutting you some slack in case you do renew?

GoDaddy sucks, to big, and unpredictable.

Possibly. It would be weird for them to do that..
It was an expired GD landing page for a while after it expired, so it went off then back on again.
It would be different if they just kept it live the whole time, then I'd think they were just cutting me slack to try to get a renewal..

Could be . . . can't say I've ever had an [unintentional] expired domain, so have no real experience with it.

Usually my expired domains just turn into crappy search pages with ads:
http://www.awesomehookahs.com/
:upsidedow

Your affiliate codes? If so, perhaps a bookkeeping error?

Godaddy does this in case you forget renew you can recover it....

Not if they took it off of my Godaddy account completely and changed Whois to themselves...
(I just double checked, not there anymore)

Maybe happend too much time since the expiration date and now they're selling it.

I've had them do that to me with hundreds of expired domains. I had them free of use for about three months after they expired, until they were eventually dropped.

When you click domains, click *launch* (upper right), see if it is in that list.

It's not.. :(

stonedquotes.com expired on December 31, 2013. WHOIS shows a private registration using Domains By Proxy. That is not the same as GoDaddy being the "official" registrant/owner of the domain. Were you using their privacy service? Since it's only 22 days since expiration, it's still in internal redemption. You can still recover the domain by paying $80. In another few days, it will be listed at GoDaddy Auctions. If it sells, the registrant info will change to the new owner on February 12th. If not, it enters VeriSign's registry Redemption Period on February 14th for 30 days, then Pending Delete for 5 days, then release.

Login to your GoDaddy control panel and click on the drop down for Domains. It will be listed under Expired Domains with Status Expired - Recoverable.

That's what I thought, but it's really not there..

Based on info from this thread and doing a whois lookup, somebody else bought it and is using Godaddy's domain privacy service.

Edit: Just saw some updated posts. My post was referring to awesomehookahs.com. Stonedquotes.com is still within the redemption period. You can still grab it for reg fee if you still want it.

Oh, yeah, awesomehookahs.com is an example of what usually happens to my expired domains.

I just didn't know there was a redemption period and don't see it in expired domains. I guess I could email support.. lol

Domain takes 45 days from expiration to drop. During this time its not possible for anyone else to own it.

A registrar may charge their own fees within that time to let you renew it, but with GoDaddy I've never had to pay more than reg fee to renew a domain within the 45 day period.

Try clicking the renew now link from the parked domain page.

If the domain is important to you, don't wait. Take care of this within the next couple of days. I would suggest a phone call to support vs. email. If you have an assigned account executive, call them instead.

Your domain was auctioned off at Godaddy auctions, someone bought it and revived it from the Google cache or the waybackmachine.

Didn't read all of the responses, so I may be repeating what someone else has already said, but GoDaddy does have an option when you register with them that gives you a grace period on renewals - I don't remember how long exactly, but I want to say it's something like 60-90 days and it's only a couple of bucks when you register. Perhaps you took advantage of it when you registered.

Are you guys new to godaddy or what?

They give you like 2 weeks to renew the domain as normal, after that YOU LOST THE DOMAIN and they take it over. You can still email them and buy it but it's going to cost you like $125 to undo everything and buy it back because it's in a holding period to be released back into general population.

It'll stay in this status for like a month.

It's back to normal now.. lol

So, my question is, why would it be going back and forth from my old site to the
"Your domain name registration has expired." page?

I fucking get how Godaddy works, but thanks....

Question...
Couldn't you just have asked GoDaddy? LOL!
All this thread contains, are "ifs & maybes".

I don't care THAT much about it.. lol. Just wondering what others say about it. :upsidedow

I'm pretty sure godaddy just snatches it and tries to sell it back to you for (a lot) more $$$.

If its a "protected registration" your domain is safe for 12 months after the expiration date, but for the price you're better off with a 5 year registration period.

If its a regular registration, once it drops its anybody's game.