I get a bill every 5 years to pay for my website. Did this laspe? I assume if I didn't pay, mine could get gobbled up.
Maybe whoever has it will give it back if the subscription is paid. Unless they have a use for it, most companies are just looking to lease them out.
Always get the .com and .org for a website lest, you end up with
something as different as whitehouse.gov vs whitehouse.com. You would
have thought the government would have known that.
Good luck Jolly