This is weird.

[ericcoleman]

eric-coleman.com expired last September. I hadn't done anything with it in a couple of years, so I let it go. Someone bought it in November and my old front page is there. Nothing else, just the old front page.

Comments

[erik]

That's...odd.

[guppiecat]

Not weird. Two things going on:

1) They're keeping just the basics up, probably from the Internet Archive, in the hopes that you realize it expired and contact them to get it back. I think you should do this to find out what they want to charge you. I'm going to guess $5,000.

2) They're taking advantage of the existing Google search ranking to get ad revenue.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

I had that happen when I forgot to pay the fee for blindlemmingchiffon.com. I wrote to the insane people who paid money for it offering to give them something, and explaining that I am the only person on Earth who would have any use for it at all. They were not interested. My website is now blindlemmingchiffon.net.