What happened? August 26, 2008
Yea, the blog went down for a few days, then (much to my surprise) appeared back up. Why? Well, BlueHost (don’t ever know why I chose them) hosted this domain a long time ago, and this year, they basically forgot to warn me the domain was about to expire (oh, how useful).
Anyway, I logged in once I saw the site was down and discovered it had expired 3 days ago yet only just went down. I tried to renew, but they wanted a $80 fee on top of the $10 registration for “redemption”. So I contacted BlueHost’s sister company, FastDomain via livechat to work out what to do. They told me the domain was in auction. I asked where and they said they’d have their domain manager find out and email me. Surprisingly he did! He told me it wasn’t in auction, and it was going to be 90 days or the $80 fine. So I replied with an angry email about the lack of notification, as well as asking what the 90 days is actually for.
So I log on yesterday and the site is up! I go to my BlueHost account and, despite it being expired, I can renew for $10. Of course, not a chance of that, so I’ve moved pointlessramblings.com to namecheap now, whom are amazing.
Did the domain come back by error, by default or by kind act of BlueHost? Who knows…
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August 26th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I’ve heard this story way too many times, although luckily you are tech savvy enough to know how to fix it. Call me a conspirator, but sometimes I wonder whether they just want an extra $80 as a way to make more money.
GoDaddy has been really good about reminding me for renewals. Although I’m not actually renewing the one that is expiring in a few months, I have gotten an email at 3 months, and at 1 month. Anyways, glad you got your domain back.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Thanks! I was thinking that too about the $80. I asked what it was for and they said it was required by the domain registrar, and they wouldn’t profit from it. But then, why would they let me renew (after) for $10? I think it’s bs from BlueHost.