Last question, What sites do you suggest going to to “Buy” domain names, as oppesed to leasing them for 1 to 10 years.

Here’s the answer that melancholygiant gave:
There aren’t any. You can only register domain names for a period of time, and must renew them when the registration expires. This is the case for all domain names. As long as the registration is renewed, you own it. Once you let the registration expire, it’s up for grabs.

So i tried to go on a site and this message comes up with a bunch of stuff..NOTICE: This domain name expired on 08/15/2009 and is pending renewal or deletion

What does this mean?

Mine is expiring today but I **** the name and the fact that the price rose from $7.14 to $10.14. So where can I buy a cheap domain name? No need for hosting, I already got that.

Earlier this year I backordered a domain name from GoDaddy. It is an important URL to me since it is my name .com (e.g. johnsmith.com )

I e-mailed the owner of it through GoDaddy and he transferred it to me after his registration expired a few days later. This was in May. Ihave since developed the website.

Now he is asking me to give it back to him since he didn’t realize I was a different “johnsmith” than he had been working with. I didn’t intend to dupe him, he just gave away the URL for essentially free without checking his facts.

Now the other “johnsmith” is mad he lost his rights. I’m very new to domain name sales/acquisitions, etc.

What would you do?

There is a domain name that I want which I am sure has been left to expire. so is currently PENDING DELETE in the whois status. I want to ensure i am the first to buy it when it becomes available, can i reserve it with a company to ensure they buy it the second it becomes available before some automated annoying domain bot search snaps it up for easy profit?

I have bought like 22 domains and some are expiring. I am a loser for not keeping track of which ones I actually have. They are all public; is there a way of reverse-looking by my name?

Free is highly preferable. Thanks

Can someone experienced in parking domains help?

The problem: Low traffic to parked names. ** Is there a company out there that will send traffic to parked domains without violating T.O.S ** All the ones I see are from pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, links or redirected. I was just about to purchase some expired domain traffic but remembered reading that traffic cannot be redirected and all this traffic is easily detected by using the same referrer since they all direct it through there servers.***** Not trying to cheat the system, Not wanting clicks just unique ip’s and referrers from North America.** Have money to invest in my own servers or what ever it takes. Would love to contact the person that can help.

I am having problems with my current UK website host. For around a year now, they haven’t been responding to any form of contact from me, and have now suspended my domain, and locked it to their own name, so it wont expire until 2009. My question is, is there any form of regulatory council that regulate website hosting in the uk?
The hosting company is www.pogga.co.uk – and they’re absolutely awful and unprofessional.

TIA

I used to own www.romantiqueinteriors.com

but I was a moron and let it expire, now someone else bought it, and the whois says registered:d

Registrant:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: romantiqueinteriors.com
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2
CA
Email: 6c530a070a1e672a00786f8f9a45c472@domaindiscreet.com

Registrar Name….: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois…: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: romantiqueinteriors.com

Created on…………..: Thu, Jun 15, 2006
Expires on…………..: Wed, Jun 15, 2011
Record last updated on..: Mon, Mar 12, 2007

Should I offer to buy it back, or what?