Tip: Check When Your Domain Name Expires!
April 27th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under
Thanks to everyone who let me know yesterday that my site was down. What had happened was my domain name had expired. I received a notice two months ago saying that my domain was coming up for renewal, but not to worry as it would be automatically renewed.
Unfortunately, this didn’t happen which not only meant that my site went down but because my nameservers also went down Tony’s, Ibrahim’s and some of Ajay’s sites couldn’t be reached (sorry guys!).
All is ok now, and normal service has been resumed.
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Comment by chris on 27 April 2007:
Well i didn’t think that this would happen on a top blog. Quite a fundemental task but overlooked in so many websites i’d expect.
A friend lost a premium domain because he went to australia for 8weeks during the renewal period and made sure he wasn’t going to logon for his holiday came back to find it had been snapped up.
Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 27 April 2007:
So did you have to pay the $80 fee to get it back after the expiration date, or does your registrar not charge the “so, you want it back, do you?” fee?
Welcome back.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Comment by Everton on 27 April 2007:
@Chris
My registrar wrote me to say it would be automatically renewed, so they messed up, not me
@Dan
It hadn’t actually been released - I think there’s some kind of grace period to give the site owner a chance to renew
Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 27 April 2007:
Well, funny thing on that - Jennifer had a domain expire recently and didn’t notice until a month or so passed. While nobody else could take it for another month or more still, the only way for her to get it back for sure involved a $80 fee to GoDaddy.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Comment by Gili on 27 April 2007:
I believe such errors can occur, however i believe that the main risk is that someone would have bought your domain name yesterday, and that’s deep shit.
Thanks for bringing this up and create awareness to the topic.
Gili
Comment by mosey on 28 April 2007:
Ah! No wonder I couldn’t access CI for a while… was really confused about that!
Comment by Enblogopedia on 1 May 2007:
lol didn’t notice, as I was off internet for about 10 days :s