What??? He has a daughter, they will get the account under control, get names renewed and can talk to her how she can liquidate and have the money go to her instead of GoDaddy. Pretty sure he would have rather had his daughter get the proceeds from GreatNames.com and echecking.com yesterday.
There are about 6 other people working on this now as well.
Because of the situation causing the domains to expire etc
Someone like godaddy should contact the relevant registrar and pick up the tab for all renewals for the next 2 years which buys a years time to have a chat with whoever Roy left his portfolio to and explain the situation and let them know the value of the portfolio and if the cash is needed etc a registrar should offer a loan facility against the portfolio etc which would be taken back when the odd domain can be sold in a managed manner thus keeping the portfolio together as I'm sure it's original owner would have wanted etc
And I know that not everyone would do this but most would give the domain back in exchange for their money back if they knew the circumstances as to why the domain name expired etc and under normal circumstances the domain names would not have become available
There should be
Domain name insurance
With every domain name purchased
The domain name insurance would renew all domains and or offer a
Domain name management service that is overseen by a board of long term domain name investors brokers and registrars etc
Even now decades after the early days of domain names etc more
Domain name infrastructure needs to be added
Eg
Domain name insurance
Domain name portfolio management
Domain name pawnbrokers
More brokers that sell average domain names which will add liquidity to the domain name industry as a whole
But with big cheese domain name investors and the many legal bods in the domain name industry this situation should be sorted out very quickly for the sake of the late man's estate and his wishes