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And transferred it away? Registrars make it really hard to do that if you're not the actual person. I'm finding it hard to believe someone can do this anonymously.

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Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.

That's neither hacking nor stealing

Legally and technically no, but it borders on both...

No it doesn't. If you were careless and let your domain expire, anyone can register it. There is no legal gray area here.

If you otherwise have a copyright claim to the name that's a separate issue.

Except the domain did not expire, if you check WHOIS.

Oh my bad. Top comment when I had said this was a claim that it was expiration related. Sorry for piling on to the claim.

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