Because it was negligence, has nothing to do with the amount, the site expired exactly 365 days from the day it was purchased. It means no one took the time to purchase a second year, no one took the time to view the emails notifying them of the "Your domain expires in 60 days, renew now" -- "Your domain expires in 30 days, renew now" -- "Your domain has expired, and is only retrievable for the next 45 days before it will be released" and so on and so forth.
It means Marc or the "hired" web developer (and I put hired in quotes, cause the original website was put up in all of 2 hours using a copy/paste wordpress database and template, I am a web dev by profession) ignored notifications for almost 3 months to make sure the domain didn't get deleted. Nothing but EXTREME negligence. I could write another 3 paragraphs as to why it is obvious that the only time you "let" a domain expire is because of negligence, but it should be completely obvious to anyone at this point.
Do I even need to mention the company emails that were deleted along with it? Come on. I suppose this is a point where the amount, $10, is a factor, why let all those precious company emails/contacts go dead for a measly 10 bucks? Red flags all over the place.
I'm not arguing this may or may not have another run some day, cause anything is possible. It's just at this point it has dirty and immoral written all over it, no thank you.
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