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They got 2 .COM's from me one time. I spend two months trying to prove that I never got early alerts, or alerts at all.. and I never did. But they just went on that auto-renew should've been on... They're selling them for a grand a piece. I have every single social media account with those names but the actual domain names... oh well.

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So you didn't renew your domains and chose not to have them auto-renew?

I went on holiday and was not able to access the account. But I was getting email alerts, at least they were set-up. So, on an alert I would've tasked someone to deal with that for me. I don't travel with my Yubykeys, see...

You have something like 60 days after they expire to reverse it. It’s been a long time, but you should have been able to get them back.

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