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March 8, 2007
Whew
I haven’t updated recently because I've been playing a lot lately. Mostly live games around Akron, and some in Vegas. More on that in a bit.
I went to check my email yesterday and couldn't seem to log in, and it turned out that somehow the domain name had expired. Damn Godaddy and their constantly mailing me crap. They sent me so much junk (both email and snail) that I've just been round-filing it all, so I missed the expiration notices. I thought it was on auto-renew, but it turns out it was the only one of my 10 or so domain names that wasn't.
So someone could have snapped up this here website for a whopping $5. I'm pretty sure the only reason I got it back is that I use a local university's DNS and they seem to register changes with incredible speed. So while the IP change back to Godaddy was still propagating, and almost everyone else was still seeing the old site, I was actually able to realize the error and fix it. Some of my friends said they viewed the site around then and never even noticed, some said they saw Godaddy's splash page for a few minutes.
You better believe that sucker is going on auto-renew now.
Posted by themaroon at March 8, 2007 4:43 AM
Comments
Actually, when a domain name first expires, even though the DNS points back to GoDaddy, you actually have some period of time (I want to say it is 30-45 days) where you are the only one who can renew the expired domain. But, after that point, it's $5 city for somebody waiting to pounce.
Posted by: Geeeek at March 8, 2007 6:44 PM