It wasn't transferred, just renewed.
Yes it's renewed. Registration reseller don't have rights for renew domain for other else person if it is before 80 days after expiration date. So it's still the same owner. Anyway, it doesn't matter who have this domain because last stage airdrop and burn coins after is priority now for success auroracoin.
See this story:
http://www.doublewide.net/Anyone can renew.
Ah, so it was passport.com that quietly expired, not hotmail.com.

That was years ago however, when NSI handled all COM and NET registrations. Now with the privatised system renewal policy may vary depending on the registrar. I've used a few in the past 5 years, and only one explicitly states on its renewal page that any handle can renew a domain... 100% self serve, no need to contact support.