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@Floppy@mastodon.me.ukDomain squatting parasite renewed a domain I'm *vaguely* interested in *just* before the end of the renewal grace period. 6 years now I've been waiting for him to either get bored or preferably go bankrupt.
Fortunately I don't really care, I just have an annual reminder to see if it's going to drop this time.
@Floppy When Nominet released the .uk TLD I really wanted to get <surname>.uk
Then a similar parasite with a bot sniped it at (something like) 1 minute past midnight on the release day and has had it up for sale for ££££ ever since.
I did briefly look at seeing whether I could contest it (as I think I have a reasonable claim on it), but the process is so involved I've just never been bothered with it...
(If I knew anyone from Nominet I'd ask, but I don't so 
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@psfshr that’s exactly what I’ve been waiting for.
@psfshr the same guy was already squatting the co.uk, and seems to have no interest in selling either. I really don’t understand the model.
@psfshr interesting that there is a process to contest it though. Might have a look as I already own one of the first-refusal domains.
@Floppy there’s a domain I want and the owner has been paying to have it serve a registrar parking page and has no mail servers for it, for *19 years*. Passive aggressive?
@Floppy years ago I had the 'lurk.org' domain and let it lapse by mistake. After a couple of years I emailed the new owner asking if they were using it and they said no and transferred it back to me. I was amazed and sent them money for a beer. It might be worth dropping them a note!
@yaxu I did ask, he wasn’t interested in even talking about it. I think he’s holding it along with the co.uk and wants to sell both together.