Originally Posted by barcodes

You can purchase a domain snap which is when a registrar tries to purchase the domain for you as soon as it becomes available. They cost i think between 40 and 60 usd. The problem with that is that if someone else does a snap and beats you, not only did you lose out on the domain, but the money as well. Have you tried contacting your registrar? The name may still be salvageable. Is it in redemption?

Snaps are the only other option that I know of if you can't negotiate with the registrar. You can usually get them at any registrar to my knowledge, I think a lot of folks here use snapnames.com, but I don't really know that for sure. Check the expired domain list to see exactly when it will be available.

I use this one, http://www.pool.com/viewlist.aspx

Best of luck to you, hope you get your name back.