Bought an expired domain. Then I inherited their AWS Root account

Posted by StuntPope on Friday July 03, 2026 @05:36PM
from the easydns.com dept.

https://easydns.com/blog/2026/07/03/bought-an-expired-startup-domain-a-few-days-later-i-inherited-their-aws-root-account/

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Re:Bought an expired domain. Then I inherited their AWS Root... by akerl_ on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:50PM (#48780946)

I don’t suppose this was related to the recent Netvue/Birdfy outage that they claimed was due to a registrar issue and lasted over a week?

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Re:Bought an expired domain. Then I inherited their AWS Root... by VaderAi on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:17PM (#48780670)

you could also end up with spam domain backlinks which will penalize your google rankings so best bet is to use the google Disavow tool to remove them.

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Re:Bought an expired domain. Then I inherited their AWS Root... by StuntPope on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:51PM (#48780955)

That's an excellent point.

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