Someone Else Registered My Domain Name?

[garthor]

Hello,

I'm right now banging my head against the wall. I purchased almost a year ago a website from someone.
The website was making around $60-110 monthly (it's rather seasonal) . Yesterday the domain name expired.

I didn't know the domain was about to expire and that it wasn't on auto renew at NameCheap.
Yesterday, the same guy I bought it from, came online and asked me about if I was the person he sold it to, I didn't speak
to him for over a year or so. This is why I suspect he's the one that bought it....

Now he's offline... I lost the domain name.... Now I'm basically $700-1300 down, as that's what this website is worth accordingly to it's monthly revenue x12.

Anything you would recommend me to get this domain name back or something?

 

[danailo]

Move on mate.

 

[tompots]

Contact the guy back and see if he is the one that garbed it, maybe he will sell it back to you if your lucky.

 

[Izzma]

Unfortunately, you missed the boat my friend.

The only thing you can do it contact Name.com Support Team and explain the situation. I doubt they will be able to help you though as the "other" buyer has purchased the domain name "legally".

Let us know how this goes as I am interested in the outcome of this situation.

Best of luck to you, however.

 

[Amsterdammer]

You have 27 days to reclaim it.
Read carefully: http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/241/

Care to sing along?

 

[garthor]

Thanks everyone for their responses. At first I thought my only choice was to negotiate with the new owner.
Thanks to Amsterdammer, I got my domain name back +REP for him.

I made sure to keep it on auto renew as well as all the important websites I own.

 

[Goal Line Technology]

You have 27 days to reclaim it.
Read carefully:

http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/241/

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

aLWAYS REMEMBER THE redemption GRACE period

 

[Amsterdammer]

Thanks everyone for their responses. At first I thought my only choice was to negotiate with the new owner.
Thanks to Amsterdammer, I got my domain name back +REP for him.

Glad to be of service and thank you kindly.
I can now strut and say I made you money. lolz.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THE redemption GRACE period

Actually, I remember a certain Mod running into the redemption period, OP was lucky enough not to need that...
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...-name-com-you-gotta-ing-kidding-me-right.html