Domain-renewal

You registered a domain for the price of a coffee, and a year later the renewal invoice is several times higher. It feels like a bait and switch, and

Most domains are not lost to hackers or legal disputes. They are lost because a credit card expired, a renewal reminder went to an inbox nobody reads

A domain does not vanish the moment it expires. Between the expiration date and the moment anyone in the world can register it again, there is a seri