AlternateIdea: Renew Those Domain Names

September 30th, 2005

Renew Those Domain Names

5 comments on 206 words

While I was making my normal rounds today I pulled up my browser about to visit my blog and to my immediate shock it pulled up one of those catch all pages that listed 1500 links to all things media.

It was scary to say the least. I never did receive an email telling me my domain name was about to expire, had it been hijacked? Not at all.

It turns out that the email I had on file at my registrar was out of date and it had been sending my renewal notices to an expired email. I was thankfully able to renew my expired domain name without a problem.

A word of advice, check your contact information regularly with your domain registrar to make sure your information is current and up to date. If this would’ve been one of my other popular domain names (“http://purephotoshop.com”:http://purephotoshop.com), I most certainly would’ve lost it to the domain name jumpers.

Discussion

Bob Aman said on September 30th

That’s why I have all my domains on auto-renew with alldomains.com
Justin Palmer said on September 30th

Bob, very true. I have some of my domains set to auto-renew but I hadn’t yet set encytemedia’s domain to do so. Needless to say, it’s set to auto-renew now.
Alex Beard said on October 1st

I was a little shocked myself when I saw the generic page.

On another note, speaking of PurePhotoshop. It was one of the very first Photoshop tutorial sites I visited when I was new to to application. There have been no updates in a very long time; anything new on its way?
Justin Palmer said on October 1st

Alex—your right, I haven’t updated Purephotoshop in a long time. I kinda lost interest in Photoshop tutorials for a while and have been busy with my freelance work.

I do however have a new tutorial that is supposed to be on the way from a reader on how to recreate an iPod. I have bigger plans for PPS as well, Starting with a fresh new Rails CMS system. :-)
Justin Palmer said on October 1st

Alex, meant to say this on the other post, but since your in Memphis if you want to get together sometime we’ll do it!

Actually heading to Reedmeisters tonight to see my friends from Moses Crow play. Come on down if you have nothing better to do. :-)

Sorry, comments are closed for this article.

Justin develops iPhone and Mac software over at Labrat Revenge by night and by day he is the Design Director for entp, the company behind Lighthouse, Warehouse, and Mephisto. You can check out his dated portfolio for a peek of what he's done.

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if(window.getSelection)
  selection = window.getSelection();
else if(document.selection)
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  if(navigator.userAgent.include("Macintosh")) {
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Object.extend(Date.prototype, {
  strftime: function(format) {
    var day = this.getUTCDay(), month = this.getUTCMonth();
    var hours = this.getUTCHours(), minutes = this.getUTCMinutes();
    function pad(num) { return num.toPaddedString(2); };

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        case 'a': return $w("Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat")[day]; break;
        case 'A': return $w("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday")[day]; break;
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      }
    }.bind(this));
  }
});

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