I know that there are stories out there about sites like GoDaddy.com "buying" domains that you've searched for and then they try to get you to pay a much, much higher price for them when you go back to buy it, but a friend who has a couple of domains told me about something he just came across that seems shady as hell AND it's NameCheap which I have held in high regard.
He had a domain. It expired in February. He's not on top of his shit so the domain expired past the grace period for renewal in the last couple of days. It's not really a domain anyone else would want and it's not likely something that will be bought by anyone else.
He went to rebuy the domain today and it has the "make offer" button on NameCheap. He hit them up and they told him that they'd only give him the domain back if he paid $100 to "release it" and then he'd still have to pay the additional yearly registration fee of $10.
Am I missing something here? Is this not super shady? Or is this a somewhat standard and accepted practice and he's simply out the domain because he failed to renew it?
This definitely isn't a premium domain and I don't think it had ever been registered before and it's unlikely it will be registered again in the future which makes it seem like NameCheap is just trying to "extort" him for more money (I'm using "extort" lightly and am unsure how else to put it)
I've heard horror stories from other domain companies, but I've been using NameCheap for 7 or 8 years and this is the first time I've heard something like this coming from them.
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