I lost the halfawake.org domain that I owned for 10 years because I forgot to renew it and hadn’t checked the email account the friendly reminders were sent to. My registrar OneStop, who I no longer use, said I could recover the domain for $265. That price seemed a “little” high so I decided to wait for the domain auction. Well I didn’t win and whoever did nicely put it up for sale at a starting bid of 550 Euros.
So here we are with a domain I owned years back and no one else took when it became available. I just have to replace the references to the old domain with the new one so there may be a few issues until I find and fix them.