I forgot to renew a site making me $100 a month!! :(

If it's been less than 30 days you should be able to get it back. I did that once and it was about 3 days after it expired and I just used my registrar and they had a link in there for me to get it back.

If someone else took it, it's probably gone for good. Who did you register it with?

One of the reasons that I LOVE Namecheap is that I've forgotten to renew domains in the past, and come back over a month later to renew them with no problem, no loss of content, etc.

Godaddy, on the other hand, will pounce on your un-renewed domain and try to sell it to the top bidder.

Namecheap good, Godaddy bad.

Will

but under whois it says someone else has it now.

I registered it with namecheap I think.

How long ago did it expire?

Im not sure when it expired. Im trying to figure out who I registered the domain with.

I still had traffic to the site according to statcounter on sunday. So it expired sunday. Geez no freaking grace period? That's bs....

Yea so it expired this morning or last night. wow and it's already gone?

it cannot be gone, you have 42 days to claim it, contact your host and they might charge you 80-250$ to get it back

on my statcounter site I still had traffic sunday. Maybe he didnt take down my site yet? I have no idea where I registered the domain. Im looking but I cant tell. Im gonna callgodaddy. This is part of my problem I know.

Yea a call to godaddy should be the first step. If you had a popular/high traffic domain someone has been watching it

coreytucker,

If the WHOIS details show a different registrant, it's probably too late to get it back (barring an agreement with the new registrant to buy it back).

I'm concerned that there's some confusion about the expiration date, though. If you're looking at WHOIS, you can see the definitive expiration date. Don't use your stats to figure that out because it's possible the domain moved to a new registrant without changing the nameservers. Also, note that most registrars do provide a grace period. At Go Daddy, at least for gTLD's, the domain doesn't leave your account until it's been expired for 42 days. After that, you may or may not be able to redeem the domain name for an additional period (usually 30 days) - that depends on whether or not the domain was purchased at auction prior to day 43.

In other words, at Go Daddy (for gTLD's), you definitely have 42 days to recover a domain after it expires, and you may have 72 days. However, if the registrant shows someone else, that time has likely passed.

what was the domain?

I put ALL of my money domains on autorenew. No remember'en no forget'en.

And... I have my PayPal account backing up my card on file.

I still get e-mail notices from my domain registrar but they automatically renew.

I think William of Occam and Tim Ferriss would approve.

Joe Mobley