Whew! Close One There!
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Jim under Announcements
As many of you may have noticed, theNetFool.com was actually UNREGISTERED for more than 24 hours! I wanted to thank those of you who came to me and let me know this right away, as you may have saved the blog’s existence altogether.
As it turns out, my registrar was sending “domain name expiration” notices to an old email account of mine that I had completely forgotten about (heck, who uses Yahoo Mail anymore anyways? 
) and my domain name expired on October 11th because I didn’t notice! Luckily for me, it seems that Name Cheap, the guys I work with, have a holding policy and I was able to smooth talk my way into extending the term of my registration out another year without any penalties.
Site Owners: Make sure that your emails are current! EVERYWHERE!
The lesson really isn’t to make sure your domain names expire, because any registrar will send you updates up to wazoo… my problem wasn’t that I wasn’t getting the alerts, but that I wasn’t “getting” the alerts.
At the very least, it was definitely a wake up call for me as to how much I really didn’t want to let this thing go… so I’ll be posting more often from here on out. I have a few plans in the mix, but I will round out the longest 30-day blog building challenge in the history of mankind first and foremost. Stay bullish on the net!
-The Net Fool
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Hi!
I a m just glad to know that everything got sorted out & I will come regularly to your blog to check out how are your bullish plans turning out.
All the best! This is best time to make it big online. Let’s hit it!
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dude I was about to freak out. I though you must have retired early or something. I looked for you on twitter to see if you had said your good byes. LOL
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Don’t count on the registrar. I had a single domain registered through Moniker, and even though my contact info was correct, I NEVER received a reminder. And of course, when I discovered my domain had expired, they tried extorting me with some outrageous price.
Eventually, they let the domain go, and I just repurchased it through GoDaddy (Where I hold my other 60+ domains), and life is good once again. GD gives me TONS of warnings when I’m coming due for expiration.
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I thought most registars have auto renew, don’t they?
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It has been my experience that most registers do not auto renew.
I had the same problem when I canceledmy paid email account.
I’m too
WoW that would’ve sucked big time. Glad things came out good in the end you lucky somebody didn’t go a head and snatch the name it would’ve been ugly man.
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Automatic subscription renewal every month is the best option i used for my domain.
This happened to me while I was overseas for two months. One of my domains expired and I only realised when I visited my website to realise it was now owned by someone else
Hey, I actually got a few good domains from people not realizing this… even some LLLL.com’s
Jay
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im sure if it had gone longer than 24 hours, then some asswipe would’ve easily bought it and probably sell it to you for a really huge price.. im glad this domain is still yours..
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Automatic subscription renewal every month is the best option in my view. I had not used it before.
We all forget once in a while… plus, there’s always those online coupons to use to save some extra money… if you use automatic subscription, you’re paying full price.
Jay
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Wholly Cow, that was lucky!
If I knew, I would have bought it and tried to sell it back to you.
BTW, I still use Yahoo e-mail too.
Jay
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You got lucky. I finally was able to purchase my company’s domain name after waiting over 8 years for it to come on the market. You must be living right!
And thanks for sharing that. What you experienced could happen to anybody.
wow that was a close one. now if we can just get you blogging again
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Eventually, they let the domain go, and I just repurchased it through GoDaddy
This 30 day blog course would make a great ebook. I go back through each post as a build new blogs just to make sure Im not missing something. Even when this challenge is over, people will continue to use this training.. Thanks Jim
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I agree, you should make sure your e-mails are current or at least forward them. It’s nice that you didn’t need to pay any fees for them holding it too!
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Whoa! How could you Jim?!
My domains are configured as “auto updated”
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Hey Jim! You just done a very great work.
, I am glad to know that your “registrar was sending “domain name expiration”. I am waiting for your latest updates.bye.
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That was a very close one. Good call. Looking forward to more posts!
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Very lucky and very close! You should always make sure all of your old e-mail adresses forwards to your new e-mail, and especially keep those domain e-mails up… So many people “sniping” for high PR domains these days…
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I’m happy that the whole affair didn’t end with something horrible. As far as expiration notifications are concerned, of course it is the domain owners duty to provide correct contact details, but still I had a similar case when even with current email address I didn’t recieve any notification whatsoever. Personally, I recommend keeping track of your domain expiration date and not leaving anything in hands of the registrar.
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I looked for you on twitter to see if you had said your good byes. LOL
We are looking forward to you for this month’s update. I have a suggestion for you why don’t you update this blog weekly of twice a week.
Sorry to comment here again but i forget to say that it’s nice that you didn’t need to pay any fees for them holding it too!
You really know what you’re talking! Excellent!
hi,
its a nice post. good for of us. keep it up
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Good to see your site back up. You were the one who got me into IM, now keep on going!
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I loved the material.
Your blog is very cool
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The same similar thing happen to me. I had around 55 domains for a client that I recently tried to cancel before their renewal date. I canceled them but I never received the final cancellation authorization email because the email I had with the registrar was an old email I didn’t use. Needless to say when it was time for renewal they were automatically renewed. Most, if not all registrars have a final email authorization after initial cancellation. So, if you didn’t get the final email you may be billed. Fortunately, It was shown that I made the attempt and the refund was given to me, but it took many calls an lots of wasted to time.
Wow, good thing is worked out well. Bet that will not happen again for ya!
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