• gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 hours ago

    Ah… I did not understand the auction link. I thought “expired” meant that the auction ended. I guess it describes the status of the domain.

    Thanks

    • 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      42 minutes ago

      You don’t actually “buy” domain names. You basically rent them from a registrar. “expired” meant someone forgot to pay rent / renew the lease so control of the name goes back to the registrar. They can just delete it after some grace period but domain names that has traffic going to them has value so they are usually put up for auction by the registrar nowadays, which is what you see here.