Hi friends, I bought a domain name from yahoo small businesses. Until the domain name is expired, Yahoo hadn't send any notifications. After one week of expiration, they sent a "domain name expired" message. I tried to renew it and I faced with the fact that Yahoo assigned its domain names to a company called Melbourne IT. Melbourne IT wanted $42 to renew it again. Now, what shell I do?
Yahoo doesn't have a manual renewal option. They auto-renew using the credit card on file. Your best bet is to pay the $42 ASAP unless you don't want the domain anymore.
I have read stories that you have to watch Yahoo when it comes to domains, not good exposure for their otherwise trusted brand
I bought this domain name two years ago and I forget to renew my CC information on my yahoo account. I am also working with "Godaddy" for 4 years and I have never had such a stupid situation. Before the expiration date of any domain name, I was getting reminding e-mails and if I forgot to renew for all these reminding e-mails, I had a choice to renew it with nearly the same price as I bought the domain name. On the other hand, who the hell is "Melbourne IT", I had a dealing with yahoo and how did the yahoo transfer my domain to an other company. I do not want to pay a cent to these cheaters.