A year ago, I decided to buy a domain name from Google for ten dollars.
All went well until a couple of months back. Google emailed me a notice to renew as I had not selected automatic renewal via a credit card with my initial purchase.
Sounds easy enough.
Wrong.
I've struggled with Google since August in attempt to renew my domain name. Once logged into my account, I was unable to simply choose automatic renewal as apparently, past a certain date, such an action is no longer an option. Communication proved next to impossible and when contact was made to the person beyond the Q & A forum, I was simply passed off to someone else.
As a result, Smashedfrog.com went quietly into that good night (although still readable by cache), the address now owned by eNom and available for me to repurchase for reportedly close to $100.
Pardon me if I feel a bit scammed.
To quote George Herbert Walker Bush, not gonna do it.
So back to Smashed Frog with a blogspot in the middle. As long as Blogger is around and offers services for free, no need to worry about going dark.
Update your bookmarks, Froggers.
We have work to do. :)
10 comments:
Um...Welcome back?
Hey, NG.
Yeah, I guess the site was down a couple of days. I actually thought the episode with Google was resolved, but apparently not.
Oh well. Worse has happened.
"they killed Kenny those bastards" opps wrong show lol D
WB Sunny. yes I searched the net for a couple of days trying to find info to mail you.
eNom is what is called a Domain sitter. They have bots that troll the internet doing searches for high hit domain names and identify those that have to be renewed after a certain time. They then automagically put in their bid for the name the second the name lapses. I am sorry but unless you pay the 100 bucks, you won't get the .com domain back..
One thing you may wish to do, AND QUICKLY. the .org and .net extensions report back no server found.. I won't print the full URL here because a spider might grab it then you are in the same boat.. however register those and you're off blogspot again.
Regards
Anon in TX.
hay Sunny wonder if yours will make acme's list of sites hacked/taken over? me
"they killed kenny, those bastards"
scammers. yet they manage to GET MAIL to you when they feel that they want to intimidate you... rofl.
the purchaser is prob a subsidiary of google. losers.
Texas,
Question. What's the advantage of losing blogspot?
My thinking is once the spiders or robots or whatever crawl the new address, the smashedfrog.com domain will eventually go wherever domains go to die.
My concern. If I drive off a cliff and owe some hosting service $25 during that same year, the entire blog is eventually lost because I'm fairly certain my credit card will come up expired if I'm six feet under. At this point, no annual fees are charged by Blogger and the content would remain online, well, as long as Blogger maintains free hosting services.
That's dark reasoning, but legitimate. For me, it's about the content, not about making dollars.
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Oh, I can understand that. My only inference is that you would be able to once again have a registered domain name instead of relying on blogspot to host your blog. If you're happy here, don't let me stop ya, just making a comment.. 8)
Welcome back Sunny. Didn't realize you were down as I have been intermittently on the Internet. Saw a few of you blog entries archived on Copwatch.net. They concerned the Julia Tuttle Bridge, and the sex offenders who were living under it.
Thanks, Texas. I thought maybe I had missed something. I appreciate your suggestion and insights. :)
And anon, thanks for the info on copwatch. :)
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