What if the company that I registered my domain name with has closed down? Let’s say that I have registered my domain name under that company for one year and the company closed down after 8 months, will I still be able to use my domain name until it expires?

I am getting e-mails from a Hotmail account telling me my domain name is about to expire. Seems funny to me that my domain is through Yahoo, yet I’m getting a renewal notice from a hotmail account. Is this a scam??? Sample below:

DOMAlN LlSTING CENTER
8171 Yonge St. Suite# 149
ThornhiIl, ON L3T 2C6
Canada

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FlNAL NOTlCE
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(Please make necessary changes)
ATT: steven yates
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT
steven yates
yatessanfr@yahoo.com

www.yates1.com

DESCRlPTION OF SERVICES:
Premium Package

ANNUAL WEBSlTE SEARCH ENGlNE SUBMISSlON
FROM AUGUST 1,2007 THRU AUGUST 1,2008
TOTAL
$75.00

SUBSCRIPTlON INCLUDES:

Custom keyword research
Optimized titIe and meta tags
Submission to 900 search engines and directories
safe follow-up re-submissions every 3 months

I want to see a list of domain names which have expired

So in all the confusion of learning to build my own site along with familiy siutations and full time work problems I failed to remember to renew my Domain Name!

Top it off it’s already taken by a domain selling company! Now my problem isn’t so much the domain name I can change it to something else I didn’t really get enough traffic for that to be an issue.

My problem is my Brand Name is Notorious Apparel and with that being the domain name as well, this resale company has text to insinuate that they are Notorious Apparel. I understand the content is necessary for search engines. But it definitley causes issues with my brand. I plan to email them and ask them to change their content so that it doesn’t cause a confliction, but before i do I was hoping somone would know how much of my brand name i actually own?

I am a sole Proprietor with other than uploading images my brand logo and the T-shirts I create onto CafePress and other print on demand sites, as well as facebook, myspace, twitter, etc. do I have any rights at all?

the domain they have up using my old domain is here http://www.notoriousapparel.com
I don’t own the trademark but I have been establishing this brand since 2006.

I’ve heard something about common-law trademark but haven’t checked it out yet

I really want a particular domain name. It is previously registered, but the the registration expires in November. It was a two year registration and it is not an actual site, it’s parked. So I think the registrar owns it. It has a private registration but seems like these guys do that.

Anyway, should I wait until the expiration date and try to buy it then or try to contact the owner? I don’t want to use a broker seems like a waste of money. They also offer a “back order” option too sounds like BS. Is it likely that the registrar would just let the registration expire or would they be evil and snatch it up again?

I have the exact same domain except its dot net not dot com. Thoughts?
Good advice. I’m going to sit on this one for a while. No deal!

what should I do?
this is the address of that page:
http://www2.searchresultsdirect.com/parking.php4?domain=yieldsmanager.com&registrar=348972&keyword=bluetooth+handsfree&eq=c38e951da68e48145f3dee432040ec7acc733e5434bd2b1991e0fececbf09ff6e139ff3f716c4d4c293c1f0214f70374a21cc9b2adbe924f84a19e5416ca1fd10dd1b17b635bd545c6655c089940dcb1d2b0252f8d31fadf796215ff8dfb0d42a214513ddb5c87217614a038ac736c255ddd58071dea9790366caec8903787a0e26a104ed9be714d5ce8d551bea9cb86155788038f10b41f3f73b69b0896aad8085744811a4ce6bd50a0022b9e182a63d9e5e0d00ecb9ff057f2266157892e92&ac300=2

a website selling counterfeit clothes, i paid but never get stuff!!

new web registered on 2009.03 but states that they’re founded in 2003
located in Xiamen China but states that they’re from Guangzhou

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Domain name: tradekeywholesale.com

Registrant Contact:
Zhang san
San Zhang
+86.101234567 fax: +86.101234567
Fujian province,Xiamen City
Xiamen Fujian 361004
cn

Administrative Contact:
San Zhang
+86.101234567 fax: +86.101234567
Fujian province,Xiamen City
Xiamen Fujian 361004
cn

Technical Contact:
San Zhang
+86.101234567 fax: +86.101234567
Fujian province,Xiamen City
Xiamen Fujian 361004
cn

Billing Contact:
Zhang San
+86.101234567 fax: +86.101234567
Fujian province,Xiamen City
Xiamen Fujian 361004
cn

DNS:
ns1.4everdns.com
ns2.4everdns.com

Created: 2009-03-29
Expires: 2010-03-29

I want to register it as the second it it up for grabs.
The info is below.

Registrant:
John Doe
New York, New York 10018
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: ***********.COM
Created on: 20-Sep-05
Expires on: 20-Sep-07
Last Updated on: 16-Aug-06

Administrative Contact:
Doe, John john.doe@********.com
New York, New York 10018
United States

Technical Contact:
Doe, John john.doe@********.com
New York, New York 10018
United States

Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.***********.COM
NS1.***********.COM

Registry Status: ok

The domain name is 11 characters long: first name surname with no spaces. The first is paul, the surname is not particularly common. The person doesn’t seem to be using the website and the domain registration expires in October this year.

I own myname.co.uk. Please only answer if you have some idea as to what domain names will sell for. Any deliberately unhelpful answers will be reported as abuse.
Domain names are not expensive but I want to get this particular domain name which, at the moment is owned by someone else. If he does not renew the registration when it expires in October it will be a free for all. I am prepared to pay a reasonable amount to secure the domain name. If someone else gets there before me in October they’d be unlikely to part with it.

I owned few domain names and bought it through Yahoo. They all expired few months ago, i did not renew them. Today, just for the heck of it, i checked to see if i can buy back the domain names again but it said its already sold. So i went to WHOIS to check out who owns it, it still shows me as the owner/administrator. How can this be? i didn’t make a payment? Does Yahoo hold the domain name or something? how can i get rid of it so it doesn’t show me as the owner and make the domain name available again to others?