Experience with Fighting Domain Farming

Lost_my_regs writes "I had a .com domain name relevant only to me, no legal trademark, registered and hosted at a provider that went bust. When attempting to re-host the domain I discovered, to my unpleasant surprise, that the domain is now registered by a domain farming company (name removed). My question is: Is there any way to claim back my domain?"

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Re:One way to get it back....

[Buran]

So in other words you're saying that once one person registers a domain, no one can ever use it again?

Gee, in that case, then the system must never allow domains to expire, must not have any mechanism for transferring them to another registrant, must not have any way for domains to be bought and sold.

Oh, wait. It has all those things.

So that argument makes no sense whatsoever.

Right answer: register your domain as a trademark.
Right answer: set up an autorenew on your domain so that you don't have to remember.
Right answer: file a WIPO domain dispute if you really feel you have a valid case.

Wrong answer: be an entitlement bitch and use lawyers to extort property away from its owners.