u/Swami218 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Remember a few years ago when someone was able to buy Google’s own domain when they let it expire?
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah! It happens for a lot of reasons! Google uses Mark Monitor I think to protect their trademarks and domains, so there are different reasons for large companies versus small ones. That's why most registrars give you some time to fix things if it expires and your site goes down and most people would fix this ASAP... we're at 3 days and counting here