The Fun Zone

It's funny how quickly time flies when you're having fun.

So, when I registered EricSummerer.com, I did it for two years. It seemed like a good number. I was just starting out, with limited funds, and it seemed like a good place to save some money. Besides, two years seemed so far away.

Well, I forgot about it. Any notes that I left for myself were lost to time, and my registrar didn't remind me. My DNS registration had expired a few days ago, and had apparently been snatched up by a bulk reseller. You can imagine my panic as my entire online business and personal identity was suddenly swiped out from under my feet. Not a happy day.

Fortunately, as far as I understand what I've read online, the original registrar has 30 days from the expiration of the registration to renew it. So, once I submitted my renewal payment (for 10 years this time, dammit), things fell back into place. Either that, or this "bulk reseller" was actually my registrar in disguise. Or, my ISP just paid off the new guy.

Whatever happened, everything seems to be back to normal now, although I may have lost some e-mail messages to the digital ether. More importantly, I've learned a valuable lesson: if you own a domain, be darn sure when you need to renew it. This could have been a major disaster.