Hello Gordon,
I think this may be bad news. Here's what I did and you can do
the same thing on your Mac.
In unix, there is a service that has been around for
decades called the whois service. You do have a whois client on
your mac and you simply go to the terminal and type
whois maciosaccess.net
You will receive a rather long block of legalese warning you not
to use automated processes, like spammers do, to query the data
base. The service is there for exactly cases like yours where
you want to know about a domain. What has possibly happened is
that a squatter/speculator may have seen your domain expire and
renewed it, not as a service to you, but so you will have to pay
the little rat so much money to get it back or they may not let
you have it back and rent it to you. We had a department here
where I work fall in to this trap and they just chose to let the
villain have the domain rather than pay up. Here is the
important part of the whois output to save you the trouble, but
you might give it a try anyway to get familiar with the whois
service. Output follows:
Domain Name: MACIOSACCESS.NET
Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A
PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Name Server: NS1.HANDSOMESEO.COM
Name Server: NS2.HANDSOMESEO.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 05-may-2012
Creation Date: 05-may-2012
Expiration Date: 05-may-2013
>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 08 May 2012 18:25:11 UTC <<<
NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring
registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.
End of quote. There is also another block of legalese
with another warning to spammers about not using automation.
"Gordon Smith <Gordon Smith" writes:
> Hi Margin
>
>
> maciosaccess.net
>
> I can't understand why it hasn't been released into the public domain
> actually, as it's expired. If so I'd register it myself as we use far
> superior registrar services than WordPress.
>
> Gordon
>
>
> On 8 May 2012, at 16:45, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What was the full domain name?
>
>
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