if you own a domain...
May. 25th, 2011 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearYou should, as soon as possible, go to the registrar service for that domain and verify that your email address on file is up to date and correct (and for that matter, verify that you can log into their service at all). If you can, get a generic never-expires gmail (or yahoo or hotmail or whatever) account that's not in any way attached to a domain that could expire if you or someone forgets to renew it or the service it is on (since gmail is free, it'll live as long as google does).
I had 2 expire today because while drak did transfer 2 domains to asmallorange, 2 others that were done through "domains by proxy" in order to have their whois information kept more private (these were to have been my more significant front domains, aboutjws.info and javaclientcookbook.net, so i wanted anti-spam safeties on them) were transferred to domainspricedright.com as the registrar (fortunately, domains by proxy at least could tell me THAT much - they couldn't tell me much more because they wanted the credit card number (last 4 digits) that was on file and damned if I knew what it was).
I got lucky. REAL lucky.
I had to go to the closet, pull out my old desktop, open the case and yank out the hard drive, get an old IDE-> enclosure, plug it in, go hunting for my Local Folders cache of all of my email from 2005-2008 (fortunately it was all still there), copy that and tweak the file folder structure so thunderbird would recognize and import it, then I was able to search to find the drak account # at the time.
the lucky bit? that same account number transferred to domainspricedright as-is, so i was able to get in with one of my "traditional" obscure passwords. pay the renewal, update the contact info, update the dns, and we're mostly all better now.
all this hassle because the only email address that transferred to anybody was the ancient long-dead acroyear@io.com.
grr...
also, can someone tell me why my fingers absolutely refuse to type the second 'r' in transfered? I've typed that word about 20 times today (on different keyboards) and my brain just refuses to think it needs 2 'r's in it.
I had 2 expire today because while drak did transfer 2 domains to asmallorange, 2 others that were done through "domains by proxy" in order to have their whois information kept more private (these were to have been my more significant front domains, aboutjws.info and javaclientcookbook.net, so i wanted anti-spam safeties on them) were transferred to domainspricedright.com as the registrar (fortunately, domains by proxy at least could tell me THAT much - they couldn't tell me much more because they wanted the credit card number (last 4 digits) that was on file and damned if I knew what it was).
I got lucky. REAL lucky.
I had to go to the closet, pull out my old desktop, open the case and yank out the hard drive, get an old IDE-> enclosure, plug it in, go hunting for my Local Folders cache of all of my email from 2005-2008 (fortunately it was all still there), copy that and tweak the file folder structure so thunderbird would recognize and import it, then I was able to search to find the drak account # at the time.
the lucky bit? that same account number transferred to domainspricedright as-is, so i was able to get in with one of my "traditional" obscure passwords. pay the renewal, update the contact info, update the dns, and we're mostly all better now.
all this hassle because the only email address that transferred to anybody was the ancient long-dead acroyear@io.com.
grr...
also, can someone tell me why my fingers absolutely refuse to type the second 'r' in transfered? I've typed that word about 20 times today (on different keyboards) and my brain just refuses to think it needs 2 'r's in it.
