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Help – My Domain Name Expired – Here’s what to do!

Posted on September 18, 2006 | 4 comments | Filed in Uncategorized 
 

If you have ever accidentally let your domain expire, you know it can be a horrifying experience. You think, what will happen to my website? What will I do?

This happened a few days ago to my web design clients last week at www.watermgm.com. Lorne Haveruk is one of the world’s top water irrigation management experts. He was getting ready to attend a major conference for his industy and horrified to see he had let his domain expire.

You basically have 2 options when this happens:

1) Pay a huge fee to get it renewed. Usually this is anywhere from $150-$300 depending on the registrar where you purchased the domain name.

2) Purchase a NEW domain name and setup a new hosting account. Upload your files to the new IP address. Then, when your old domain name is “released” back into the queue where it can be purchased again at regular price, you can buy back your old domain name and forward it to your new domain name and hosting account you setup.

We purchased www.DHWaterMgmt.com for Lorne and uploaded his files there. And today he is flying off to his conference.
I will keep an eye out when his old domain is available for repurchase keeping a close watch. You don’t want to “lose” your domain name due to someone else buying it before you get a chance.

Has this ever happened to you?

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4 Responses to “Help – My Domain Name Expired – Here’s what to do!”

  1. Kelly on September 20th, 2006 6:02 pm

    Oh Kristie! I feel bad for your client :( What a hassle to have to go through. Thankfully they have a good web mistress to take care of things for them :)

  2. Tiffany on September 21st, 2006 9:10 am

    This is why I use a registrar that will automatically renew my domains. :)

  3. Administrator on September 21st, 2006 1:14 pm

    Yes Tiffany. That’s why I love Godaddy! While my client “should” have received an email saying it was about to expire, sometimes you don’t get that email or miss it. Then you are really in for trouble!

  4. David Johnson on November 3rd, 2006 4:26 pm

    There’s a useful service called domaincpr that allows you to schedule email reminders for expiring domain names, good as a second layer of security! It’s based at http://www.domaincpr.com

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