[conjuredbytes]

For ICANN accredited registrars, aren't there rules about when and how a registrar can delete or revoke a domain? You can submit complaints to ICANN here: https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint

[Falkon1313]

Yes, and one of those cases is anytime you don't pay them rent to renew your lease before the expiration.

[immibis]

If you didn't have to keep paying for domain names, big businesses would have registered all the interesting ones two decades ago. Same for physical property.