Someone else owns my old domain, but WHOIS still shows my information

[Dominado]

Hi guys!

In february 2007, I registered a domain name through Yahoo! Domains. It was a domain I thought would be good, but as time passed I realized it was not so good. So, when the renewal date approached, I cancelled my domain and the account associated with it.

About 8 months later, I accessed the site and there was a parked page. Out of curiousity, I checked its WHOIS record to see who was the new owner and to my surprise, my registration information was still there. Everything, my name, address, phone number and contact email.

I checked various WHOIS, in case the first one I checked had not been updated, but all seem to show the same information.

Is there anything I can do, so my personal information is erased?

Thanks in advance!

 

[[email protected]]

First thing, you cancelled the service , but the domain will expire only at the time it is supposed to.

If it shows your EMAIL ID ... that is waht your mail say, then the domain you still own and you can validate the domain owner details .

 

[Dominado]

But the domain expired about 7 months ago, and someone else registered it.

 

[PowerUp]

Maybe the domain got auto-renewed?

 

[Dominado]

No, it didn't. Well, at least I didn't pay for it.

 

[Kate]

Can you still login to your registrar account and manage the domain ?
Otherwise: http://wdprs.internic.net/

 

[Dominado]

No I can't login, because I cancelled the account. I guess I'm gonna have to use http://wdprs.internic.net/

Thank you guys!

 

[ajkula]

Stay away from Yahoo! Domains. They practice to keep expired domains with unchanged whois data for more then a year after expiration date. I don`t know how they do it and I can only guess why they do it, so be careful with them.

 

[Dominado]

It's good to know. Thanks!

 

[Hurley4540]

I got a free domain on Namecheap and when it expired it said it was renewed by me but I never paid for anything and the whois was still in my name.....

 

[Dave_Z]

If it shows your EMAIL ID ... that is waht your mail say, then the domain you still own and you can validate the domain owner details .

Uh....no, it doesn't. While a domain name can show your name and details, it
isn't yours if you no longer pay for it.

There was a similar discussion where eNom apparently does that as well. That
is one reason why not to let the domain name expire if it can be helped, or at
least transfer it to a registrar who won't do that.