The add/drop scheme How millions of .COM names are used but never paid for
Millions of good .COM domain names – on any given day over 3.5 million and climbing — are unfairly made unavailable to small businesses and others who would actually register and use them in ways for which the names were intended. Many times businesses accidentally let their domain names expire. When they go to renew them, they find they have been snapped up – and taken away with a huge expensive hassle to follow – by an add/drop registrar.
Bob Parsons (CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com) explains this common practice in his blog.
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