The very day, in fact just a few hours after, we made THIS POST about changing our web address I got an email from my current registrar letting me know that the current holder of the domain has decided to let it go. This happened two months after they renewed the domain so they already paid for it.
It looks as though vodahost were watching our blog and once they saw that we were not going to give in to their extortion attempts they decided to give up. If it wasn't for our attempt to auto register the domain when it expired in August, we wouldn't have gotten the notice that the status of the address had changed from it's captive state.
For now the web address will bring you here, to the blog, but in the future we plan to rebuild the website.
Welcome back to oldrialto.com