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| Author: | Pat Hawley [ Sat May 15, 2010 2:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Domain Name Game |
A year ago I registered the domain name http://www.hawleyguitars.com and set up a little web site with quickhost.com. Last week I received some messages saying that my first year was up but I was on automatic renewal and no action was required on my part. Apparently I was mistaken to interpret this to mean that I didn't have to do anything except not be surprised when I got a bill for the renewal. Yesterday I got a message saying my domain name had expired and now when I go to http://www.hawleyguitars.com I see not my site but a list of links to things in Hawley, Pennsylvania. While this is undoubtedly a nice place, I'd prefer to have my site back. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Have I lost my domain name? The name was expired for about one day - are there people out there looking to grab names when they expire and, if so, why would anybody else want http://www.hawleyguitars.com? Quickhost doesn't have live support on the week end and part of me is hoping that this is some kind of default thing they do until I renew the name. When I do a "whois" search, my name still comes up as the owner. Is this a reasonable hope or am I fooling myself? Thanks, Pat |
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| Author: | Tom West [ Sat May 15, 2010 3:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Domain Name Game |
Pat: It seems to me that Shane at high mountain had something like this happen to him. Maybe a PM to him may get you some advice. Good luck. Tom |
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| Author: | John Platko [ Sat May 15, 2010 3:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Domain Name Game |
Todd Stock wrote: Go to one of the domain registration site and reregister...you let the domain expire, but it's still probably out there and available. I couldn't buy it! It seems that each register has their own policy about how long to keep the name on hold. |
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| Author: | Mattia Valente [ Sat May 15, 2010 5:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Domain Name Game |
Google a Whois service, and you'll see you're still the technical owner of the site, although it states it expired on the 12th of May 2010. Contact your ISP/registrar and find out what went wrong. |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Sun May 16, 2010 7:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Domain Name Game |
Pat, Sounds to me that those links to Penn are just there from some sort of search engine but unrelated to your name. |
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| Author: | Pat Foster [ Sun May 16, 2010 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Domain Name Game |
Pat, It may be that your host doesn't handle your domain registration. Mine are separate and I have to renew them both. Pat |
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| Author: | Pat Hawley [ Sun May 16, 2010 10:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Domain Name Game |
Thanks for the replies guys. I was able to get on on-line help with quickhost this morning. The reason that I was not renewed automatically was because they had an old credit card number which had expired. I sent in new credit card info and all should be well soon. Pat |
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