...it's apparently a very common practice. I've 
seen it happen more than once, and it really 
sucks >< It SHOULD be illegal...of course, then 
again ISP's SHOULD give notice about domain 
expiration, and everyone SHOULD be nice to 
everyone else. But that's not the way things are, 
unfortunately. All I can say is, sorry it had to 
happen to such a good person, and I hope they get 
their comeupins in the end...if I had any sort of 
power, I would try to do something about this, as 
I'm sure most of us definitely don't condone this 
behaviour. Does this remind anyone else of cel 
reselling? ;p

::sigh::

-Misha