[Info-vax] OPENVMS Hobbiest domain name invalid

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In article <5oCdnZi2D-p8uM7QnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d at mchsi.com>, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> writes:
>On 2/9/2011 5:06 PM, Cave Fatuis wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 8:27 pm, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Did you ask Godaddy if they'll take your money to simply renew the domain
>>> (without change of ownership or anything else) ?
>>
>> Yeah, no dice...
>
>What Godaddy's web page indicates is that interested parties can place 
>bids on a domain for when the grace period ends and indicates that they 
>will sell it to the highest bidder.  That seems to be the only way to be 
>in the queue to pick it up.  I do not know how to tell if anyone else 
>has bid on a name.

What a scam this domain name selling business has become.  Thank ICANN,
pronounced I-CON because it's criminal.

I've take to renewing my domain names for several years whenever one of
the registrars offers special deals just because I fear a scenario such
as this one now plaguing the openvmshobbyist domain.


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