Ammar (Ammudamus) over at Namepros posted he had a domain name owned since 2016, just taken out of his account. Fussball.tv.
He wrote:
I just got an email from Dynadot that one of my domain names has been removed from my account by the central registry without any notice! At first I thought my account was hacked, but this was done without any notification. I have had this names for many years and it was standard renewal. I am shocked by this and am trying to get answers. Everyone should be on high alert! Not good on .TV’s behalf.
At this point Ammar is hoping it was an error, but it’s out of his account. I will updated the post with later news on Fussball.tv.
I’m so glad to hear that I wasn’t imagining this happening to me, as well.
Many years back (2007/2008) I purchased the name of an elite club that some prominent individuals belonged to, based on an article about its exclusivity.
Admittedly, it was probably either formally registered with the USPTO, or they simply had derived common law TM rights (I registered it on a whim, so I never checked the USPTOs database).
Anyway, about a week later I checked my GD account and the domain name had vanished – gone, with NO NOTICE at all. Yet I definitely made the purchase and had gotten the standard GD confirmation email.
I never bothered to pursue the matter because, like I said, it was probably a registered TM. But I thought that that was a very strange thing to happen with no advance notice at all.
Dodgy old .tv antics. When your domain are ultimately controlled by a sinking island in the pacific that is not a good thing.
It had nothing to do with tuvalu you moron this is GoDaddy who is the registry I’m pretty sure they’re not an island.
Of course it is to do with Tuvalu, no sensible country would appoint Godaddy to manage a registry. 3rd world extension.
SO i think this is VERY VERY different than the verisign changeover issue from years back
if an error, please fix it, if a policy change please inform the community, but
PLEASE no weak excuses like we are the new owner and we just though we could take names.
the .TV supporters in the community probably know more about the TLD than the new owners, and hopefully the registry will see us as a partner going forward, at least a co-stakeholder but if an enomy i think we need to stay strict and be zero tolerance on tricks and gamesmanship
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