These sorts of things are exactly why I don't purchase domains from
anyone but myself. And, also why I don't use prehosted blog sites.
You can install wordpress anywhere, it doesn't have to be on their
servers, and you can handle your own domains, no reason to pay anyone
to hand over a packaged deal for (likely) more money than it takes to
do it yourself.
I realize these folks fill a nich, (a rather profitable one if they
are to be believed) but I personally wouldn't use such services,
unless I was out of options all across the board.
If they own the domain, nothing you can do. if someone else
registered it in the meantime, (again) nothing you can do. If it got
renewed, and is just waiting for you to reclaim it, then that's
probably the only way you'll get it back. (whois is your friend)
check the whois record, and see who it's registered to, then you'll
know which of the above scenarios *might* apply.
I always recomend to folks to handle their own domain registration,
specifically to avoid such issues as this one, I can't tell you how
many times folks have had domains stolen out from under them because
some company insisted on registering the domain for them, then
mishandled it afterowrds, or claimed it after the term was up, or any
number of other things I've heard horror stories about.
It's possible though, that in this case, nothing has been done with
it, and it's simply sitting in limbo waiting to be returned to the
pool (ome registrars hold on to them longer than others) and a quick
email to support will gather it up for you again, and all will be fine.
That does happen from time to time, but from where I'm sitting,
that's only a small minority of cases. Good luck with the domain and
the blog.
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