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wraith808:
As the number of people chiming in that they didn't know it was possible are rising, I figured I'd post GoDaddy's method of doing the same (as I can't show Hover's, of course)

Canceling Domain Registrations with GoDaddy:

https://www.godaddy.com/help/cancel-my-domain-412



The other strange and troubling thing about this is that it was redirected to the other questionable domain with me still as the contact.

PhilB:
There is no mechanism to terminate a registration for most (all?) TLDs given they are for fixed periods. With UK domains we can 'detag' a domain to put it out of reach of any one registrar without the registrant contacting the registry, but it still exists until it expires, and .. iirc .. we'd have to delete the nameservers first to actually render the domain non-functional. I can't really remember as I've only ever had to detag one domain once (a knuckledragger of a customer who was confused about what they had bought and was angry about it and then making threats to "come over and sort [us] out").

Any registrar offering a cancellation option is probably doing so to quell complaints from angry people who don't understand and "just want it gone" from their account, and they just remove it from the customer's control panel account, but it still exists.

Likely when you do this, they redirect the domain to traffic monetisation platforms to get a few fractions of a cent per pageload serving ads.

There's a lot of questionable activity by registrars who change the nameservers of 'expired' (but not yet 'in redemption') domains to similar traffic monetisation systems the moment (or very shortly after) they expire - or perhaps because you 'disabled' the domain in their panel somehow -  this is probably what has happened to this one?

wraith808:
Likely when you do this, they redirect the domain to traffic monetisation platforms to get a few fractions of a cent per pageload serving ads.

There's a lot of questionable activity by registrars who change the nameservers of 'expired' (but not yet 'in redemption') domains to similar traffic monetisation systems the moment (or very shortly after) they expire - or perhaps because you 'disabled' the domain in their panel somehow -  this is probably what has happened to this one?
-PhilB (October 02, 2017, 10:09 AM)
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I thought that might be the case, so when I cancelled a domain before, I checked to see if it was seen as able to be registered with another registrar.  It was, at the normal rates.  That's no guarantee, but it is pretty telling.

Stoic Joker:
IIRC Hover will do the private whois free. That might be a quick-n-dirty way to get your name off of it quickly

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