I lost my domain name braukaiser.com b/c I didn’t renew in time. I was busy otherwise during the last few weeks and didn’t even think that this could happen.
Hence none of the e-mails you sent since 4/1 got to me. I only noticed this b/c e-mails in my outbox didn’t get sent.
I already registered braukaiser.org, but I may think about some other .com name instead.
The wiki and content is not lost, just all the old links to my site. At some point Google will catch up and a search for braukaiser should get you to the new location.
Man I’m really sorry to hear that. I know it won’t make you feel any better, but welcome to my life. This is an example of why people like us need secretaries. Sticky notes and PDAs just don’t work like a human who can say, “Hey! This needs taking care of would you like me to do it for you?” (No I don’t have a secretary either, but it would be nice) Btw, I hate the kind of folks who snatch domain names because they can.
Wow, that’s awful - I don’t know anything about these things, is there no recourse? It takes a giant loser to do something like that, are they just hoping to sell it back to you?
Looking at the whois records for braukaiser.com I see that your name is still the registered contact, and the TTL (the time the DNS server takes between checking for updates) is just under 24 hours, obviously that time hasn’t passed yet so it’s possible someone else took over the domain. For what it’s worth you should be able to re-register the domain once that 24 hour period has passed. I’ll keep an eye on it today and if I see it switch over to ‘available’ I’ll ping you via DM.
I see the DNS host as being: RENEWYOURNAME.NET, which points to Tucows, and Tucows says your registered provider is http://www.registergo.com - have you tried logging in with them or contacting them?
Note that the actual content showing right now for your site is the default placeholder content for pretty much any DNS provider. They figure, why have a blank page show up when we can make money off ads, so I wouldn’t immediately assume that someone else has taken over your page.
Thanks. After the initial shock I’m realizing that I’m not as screwed as I thought I was. I’m currently trying to resolve the issue with my hosting provider. If someone was fishing for expired domains to make money, they’d have a link on the main page.
I was able to log into my domain name account and renew the domain. I just happened to use the wrong password. The domain is renewed. But that should have thought me a lesson, especially since I started to use the braukaiser.com e-mail for important stuff too.
Glad it worked out 8) I know how stressful that sort of thing can be. It’s like backing up your computer - you don’t really think about it until it’s too late
Glad it worked out, Kai. I was really concerned after getting your email this AM, but it sounds OK now. My domain name is set to auto renew unless I tell them otherwise. Can you do something like that?
I changed the name servers and now it’s just a matter of time for the changes to propagate. In hindsight, this was not nearly as severe of an issue as I initially feared.
