domain stealers and pain

Well, less than 24 hours after my doimain registration expired, I found that it reflected an entity, a unnamed company, that was not me. I thought there was a 40 day grace period after your domain expires. I went to the domain registrant and clicked renew and payed up and 20 minutes later my domain again reflected my dns pointers. I don't know what is going on. Does my registrant 'lease' out my domain if I don't renew right on time? I'm sure this has to be in violation of ICANN policy. Anyway, any of you that checked my site today and found something other than my site, just disregard the violation. As for the pain, my tooth is killing me. I have an appointment with the dentist in the morning.

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