Does anyone know of or have experience making an official complaint about a domain registrar. I was thinking maybe ICANN?
My situation:
I purchased a .com domain name at the end of 2010 for 1 year. I own a number of domain names and can’t keep track of them individually so I turned on automatic renewal. The domain in question points to another domain and I very rarely check it. The domain registrar however registered the name for 2 years on their computer system (by mistake). As a result I never received any notifications about renewing it and the domain wasn’t automatically renewed.
Today I find that it is actually owned by a domain broker who is selling it (at over $2000). The registrar still shows the domain as not expiring for another 4 months.
What should I do? The registrar just says they made a mistake and are sorry but won’t do anything about it.
I am deliberately not including the registrar or domain in this post so as people don’t think I’m advertising.