Bastards

Oriel

I had sinecurea.com registered for two years there, and only recently was it dormant/unregistered, while I changed computers, and got back into websites. Now that I go to register it again, I find that some bastard company called Basic Fusion have only gone and registered it: www.sinecurea.com
There's nothing there! And I'm pretty sure there won't be until for the whole year that they have it registered for.
The thing is, I'm the only person on the net to you "sinecurea". Googling it only brings up references to me.
Why the **** would they register it (apart from thinking I'm going to buy it back off them, which I won't).
More importantly, where did they get the sinecurea reference from? Is there a bot scouring the internet for old domain names?

Bastards.
That is all.

S.

Khannie

How come you let it lapse? Did your registrar not send you lots of emails reminding you? If not, they're crap.

Oriel

They did, I just wanted to leave it for a while. I didn't have the time to do any web stuff, so I didn't see the point in having the website and paying for the hosting when I wasn't going to make proper use of it.
Anyways, that's not the point though!
How and why did they get the sinecurea name from?

garthv

Maybe email them and ask them for it?If they ask you to buy it off them just reg one of the new .eu address's?

irlrobins

should have just reregistered the domain name and let the hosting go. Would have only cost you a few euro. But guess telling you that now isn't going to help.

There are companies out there that snatch up dormant domains in the hope of selling them back to original owner or sell to new owner at a price higher than the going rate. They have no interest in using the domain themselves.

groundedplane

Well, you know what they say in China, Tough Shi t. There are people watching this kind of thing all over the net in the hope to sell for big bucks. The ironic thing is that in the time it took you to post this message, you could of renewed your domain name.

You call them bastards, but if you are not going to renew your domain in time, well they are intitled to buy it and do what they want with it.

Sorry for your troubles man.

themole

when did this happen?

there is a grace period, around a week i think, in which if the company gives up the domain name they do not have to pay for it and its returned to the pool.

they usually monitor the traffic going to the site to see if it is getting any hits.

if it is they will setup a search engine on the site or try to resell it.

Oriel

Just got the e-mail back there:

Bastards wrote:

Dear Stephen,

We are excited that you are interested in the domain name (sinecurea.com) .

We would also like to apologize at time to inform you that once a domain is purchased by us we are not interested in selling.

You can have the same name just with a different extension. Please se below of the extensions we offer.

Why buy the ****ing thing, then not use it AND not sell it?

zilog_jones

I think they bought it for the sole purpose to annoy you...

cormie

Or to get you to register with them to buy it in the .net/biz/org/etc form for some reason? CC details perhaps? You should register a .net or whatever else they offered with another company and send them an email saying you decided to register, but not with them, just to piss them off:p

RotalicaV

If i knew you'd get this annoyed over it, i'd have bought it aswell.

You didn't renew, stop whining.

nobodythere

I'm curious to know how they detect when domains expire, do they just have crawlers that visit the sites regularly or query DNS servers and look for records that no longer exist, or do Internic make it easy for them and have an easy way to find expired domains?

Sparky

sparky-s.com now offering sinecurea.sparky-s.com

In seriousness, they seem to have made it redirect to some sh1te search engine.