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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by willcipriano on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:51AM (#23768974)
You can petition ICANN if you lost a domain that you paid for. As long as you are the rightful owner it will be returned to you. Keep a active credit card on file with your registrar and keep a credit with them as well. All the horror stories I see are cases where someone stops paying.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by pc86 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:27AM (#23769182)
> As long as you are the rightful owner it will be returned to you.

As long you can prove you are the rightful owner. Sometimes that's much easier said than done, especially to a particular burden of proof they might require to pull the domain away from someone actively using it.

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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by treeman79 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:53AM (#23770433)
Was running a multi hour deploy. Only minor features, so low risk.

Everything broke with our biggest client.

After a massive scramble it turned out our clients certificate had expired, in middle of the deploy.

  So our system could no longer talk to them.
Whoops
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Re:Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of t... by sct202 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:54AM (#23770445)
It's going to be a lot easier for Google to do that to get blogspot.in back versus if I were to do it.
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