Okay, I called the domain provider number that appears on whois domain lookup, and they transferred me to another number.
This domain is in fact registered to Steve Wood, and I simply asked if I could help by paying for re-registration because we've got a community that depends on this site a lot. She told me that normally we could do that, but they're having an issue with the host of the domain which is no longer doing business with them. This issue of domains not renewing has been a huge problem for a lot of people and they've been helping resolve it.
She said she'd reach out to Steve Wood to let him know about the domain issue ☺ nice gal, she mentioned that usually the domain owners are under the impression that it has automatically renewed until it gets brought up that there's a problem.
Let's wait and see.
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