Hey all! I had a friend pass away recently and she was writing a blog about cancer and her experiences etc. She did the blog through wordpress, and her family is asking me to host it for them so they can keep it online etc. Problem is, the domain expired a couple of weeks ago, and wordpress is stating that we have to pay 106.00 to re-register it (includes their 80.00 late fee, boils my BLOOD!!). What I was planning to do was simply register the domain and host it on my server, but wordpress registered it themselves for a year of course banking on the 80.00 late fee. Anyone experience this before? Any suggestions on what I can legally do to get control of the domain (since it's her unique domain) for the NON-extorted price?
I don't have any experience with wordpress.com, but I think that companies this big usually don't do anything that is not stated in their terms of using the service (which the original owner of the domain had to agree with). There is probably nothing you can do, so just go with it, unless you want the domain to expire and lose all data hosted by WP.
Yeah I have contacted them and they are corresponding with me. I'll keep ya'll posted just for informational purposes.