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A bit off topic but related, I bought my surname .com somewhere around 1999, free to reg, using a small local ISP that the company I worked for used. Never used it but paid my dues to them (somewere around £50 per year!) happily each year to renew, then checked it one day a few years later to find it was registered to someone in the states.
ISP said that they were using an email registration system that failed at the time, sorry and all that but nothing we can do.
It's now registered to an Italian company, they wanted Eur 4K last time I asked. Winds me up every time I think about it, would love it now for email addresses for the family.
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