Panic! at the Website
I spent this afternoon in internet hell.
Around five o’clock I went to check my email, but found that Outlook wasn’t connecting to my server. Not terribly uncommon for it to do this from time to time for brief periods. But hours later it was still acting up. I figured this would coincide with my website being down, but, to make sure, I typed in my web address and was horrified beyond belief to see an advertisement with “danajohnhill.com” written next to it. I frantically checked a separate Hotmail address I use just for my site admin stuff, and could not believe my eyes: I had missed renewing my domain name. It looked like someone else had bought my own name and had put up an advertisement website.
I was in a frenzy, writing frantic messages to my host, checking on the status of my files, trying to see what I could do to reclaim my name. It seems that my efforts have paid off, thankfully, and tonight I once again own “danajohnhill.com” and will for years and years to come. I messed something up in the meantime, so “danajohnhill.org” doesn’t point here for the time being, but I’ll figure that out when I am less deranged.
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