No, I am not amused at all. When I turned on my computer this morning and loaded my sites in my browser this is what greeted me:
My domain triciaswaterdragon.com, the one that is home to my popular website that has had over 10 million visitors in the last almost 11 years, was up for renewal on July 27th. My hosting company told me they would automatically renew it for me when I asked about it at the beginning of June.
You know when they renewed it? This morning.
Some idiot must have snapped it when it floated free into the world of domain names and registrars. They probably hoped I would come crawling to them and buy it off them for a high price. Idiots!
I wrote to my hosting company as soon as I discovered that my domain was no longer mine. It had been there early this morning at about 6 a.m. after all. They wrote back stating that they were aware of the “mistake” and that they were already in the process of fixing it. I don’t know what they did, maybe they had to buy it back themselves. Either way it’s back.
I just about had a heart attack when I saw the gun registry page though. As I stated in my last post I wrote and article for Reptiles USA annual edition and it’s going to be on the stands August 1st. I’m expecting a lot of new visitors to my site as of this coming week. All I could think of when I realized that I had lost my domain was that all those people would be greeted by a gun registery site. Arghhh.
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On top of that …
My husband is working this weekend. But at noon the front door opened and in walked Chris. He had spent a good portion of the morning in the emergency department as a patient due to dizziness, chest pain and extreme sweating.
He had all of these symptoms several times a day for about 8 months two years ago. At the time they thought he had a rare heart arrhythmia called Brugada syndrome. It was thought to be the kind of arrhythmia that could cause sudden death. So he was admitted to the hospital and had a ton of tests to try to see if they could reproduce the symptoms. If they could, they would have a diagnosis and he’d end up with a defibrillator installed in his chest.
They couldn’t reproduce the symptoms but they were sure that something had happened with his heart because he had, and still has, permanent ecg (EKG) changes.
He hasn’t had any bad symptoms for about a year so this was a surprise. Right now he’s lying on the couch relaxing but he’s doing better than the last time he had these symptoms.
I guess our bad luck is continuing.
Tricia..I am sorry to hear about all the untimely things happening this weekend.
As a nurse, my first question would be how much caffeine has your husband had but I’m sure the doc’s and nurses at the ER asked the same thing.
I hope everything improves and rights itself.
Pam
Oh, those scoundrels! Isn’t there supposed to be a 45 day grace period for non-renewals?
I sure hope he’s OK! Glad your site’s back up, too.
BV
Oh, man…you had better luck than I…
Several years ago, I paid my host’s domain fee and went on my merry way. It was for a business site…one I was on hiatus from, but was going to need in a couple months. Someone called to say they sent me an e-mail which bounced…and wondered why I had changed my site. HUH?
I was greeted with some stupid, made up, idiot’s version of a search site. And my host said, “Oh, oops. Sorry. Better luck next time.” I was so pissed. So. Yay! You got your site back!!
Sending good thoughts to your hubby’s chest! 😀
Sending your husband get well wishes & happy thoughts! Please keep us updated.
Hey Trish, it’s Chris from The Daily Dump.. (well we moved site now.. we’re What The Fug now hehe) I just wanted to thank you for all those tips and advice back when I first started the blog gang. I’m actually getting quite a few readers now and all thanks to you =)
-Chris