Domain on Route 53 taken over. How can I get it back?

Question

I have a portfolio website that I host on s3 and bought the domain from Route 53. The link is schraderbachar.com. I've had this site for years, and took a look at it today and saw it was compromised. When I go to the s3 bucket and view it there, it shows the correct site, but when I go to the site, it is not my site, I think its been compromised and taken over. How do I get it back? The domain is still active according to Route 53 records. Not sure what / how this happened.

Steve_M · Accepted Answer

According to **whois** the domain was registered on 2nd July this year https://who.is/whois/schraderbachar.com

But you say that you've had the site for years. is it possible that you allowed the site registration to lapse? If you did then once the site becomes free for anybody else to register then I think you have lost it.

Even if you set your domains to auto-renew in Route 53, you can still lose it if the payment method (usually a credit card) expires and you don't update this in the Billing section of AWS Console. I'm not saying this is what has happened to you , but it is worth looking into (I nearly lost one of my domains a year ago because of this).

It may be worth raising a support call with AWS to see if they can help to work out what has happened here Account and Billing -> Service: Billing -> Category: Domain Registration Issue

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-contact-support.html

Domain on Route 53 taken over. How can I get it back?

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