Domain Pain Some of you already know this story, but I'm gonna tell it anyway.

Well on Sunday, the 9th of this month I made an early entry in my blog, and everything seemed fine and dandy with my site. I went to church and then to work that night. I thought nothing of it. Then when I got home I had something on my mind that I wanted to blog. I always leave about 6 IE windows open 24X7 on my machine (my blog, mt, my host's cpanel, and a few blogs I check regulary). So I just typed out my entry and hit save. I got a "Cannot find server" page. I thought maybe my internet was down. Checked, nope. I thought maybe the host was down, nope, Kevin's site was up. I was cunfused. I then thought my hosting plan got killed some how, I tried a few of my other domains and they all worked perfectly fine.

Then it hit me, my domain (chrishileman.com) expired on 9-9-02, and they emailed me about it, but the sent it to webmaster at chrishileman dot com, but since the domain was dead I didn't get it. I was mad at myself for forgetting it. So I grabbed my wallet, pulled out the ol' credit card and ran over to godaddy.com, I had this plan to transfer the domain to Godaddy from register.com when it ran out. I filled out all the forms and paid the $8 transfer fee. It said it would take a day to 2 to transfer.

The next day I checked my Go Daddy account and it said that it failed cause the domain was locked. Seems that register.com locks your domain for 60 days after it expires so a porn site (a few of you liked the idea of porn on chrishileman.com, I'll take some shots of myself and sell them for a small fee, NOT) anyway. I wasn't about to pay the damn $35/year to renew with register.com. I talked with a few friends and decided that I would pick up technoblog.com for my blog and bring up chrishileman.com when the 60 days was up. I called up the Go Daddy support guys to see if there was something I could do to get around the 60 day lockout, the guy I talked to said it was locked, I could either pay up to register.com or wait and get it from Go Daddy, while we were on the phone I picked up technoblog.com and then grabbed jazybones.com for our good TechTV Nut, blogger type friend. He was extremely excited about it, if he's on your blog roll, update his URL as well as mine!

So while I was waiting for the DNS to catch up, I got angry at register.com, I never wanted to go with them but I first registered my domain with a free domain company, and then to kill the ads all you had to do was pay the registration fee at register.com, so I was stuck with them for 2 years. They are extremely expensive! Dang, $35/year is steap! Go Daddy only charged $8/year. Why anyone goes with register.com is beyond me.

So since I was so mad, I went ahead and paid my renew fee for 1 year with register.com, my host has chrishileman.com setup as my main domain and that is what all my email addresses use so I figured I would pay for 1 year and then ASAP transfer it to Go Daddy, those guys are great, now I have an inside friend who hooks me up ;-b.

From now on, all my blogging will be here at technoblog.com. chrishileman.com will be a personal site about me and my work and such. I've wanted to do this for a while. Now I have a new domain, new look, now name and with the new name I can ramble about technology all I want. I'll still do some personal posts but I love to ramble about tech so this gave me a good excuse! Post comments and let me know what you think. I know I still have work to do on the templates and such. I'll get to that when I have a little more time! Also post in this week's poll! Posted by chris at 09:52 PM This Blog • (10) Trackbacks