What Happened Last Night?
Last night I logged on to the internet and clicked my WMF bookmark and all I got was a message saying that the domain webmaster-forums.net expired and was up for sale. :eek: Well I'm very glad to see it's not gone forever! :sunny: Anybody know what happened?
And as long as I've brought it up, didn't this site have a prolonged (or permanent) domain outage several years ago? I remember the site being gone for weeks, and then luckily one of you 1000+ post'ers sent me a personal email letting me know that the site was back but in a different location. Or did I imagine all that on a bad acid trip? Didn't something like that happen way back when? Did these forums used to be on a slightly different domain name?
Megan posted this at 14:45 — 19th January 2005.
She has: 11,421 posts
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Yes, our .com domain got sniped a few years ago. The mods personally emailed everyone in the membership list to alert them of the new domain name!
Megan
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fifeclub posted this at 15:04 — 19th January 2005.
He has: 688 posts
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It may be years later but "Thank You!" again to those mods for going through all that extra effort to lead us back home. Otherwise, what do you mean by "sniped"? How could something like that happen to a bunch of expert webmasters? Does the story make for a good bedtime tale?
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 15:59 — 19th January 2005.
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Yar, 'tis a gru'some and horr'ble tale about the one that almost got away, ar, because we wasn't looking at the domain's exp'ry date. The rest of the tale be far too gru'some and horr'ble fer us to tell ye here, ar.
fifeclub posted this at 20:57 — 19th January 2005.
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ROTFLMAO! :roll:
Sonic_Wolf posted this at 01:56 — 17th May 2005.
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Joined: May 2005
But Why did the .com get snipped? :eek:
KGP posted this at 14:50 — 19th January 2005.
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Joined: Jan 2005
i got the same experience 4 hours ago.....and now it works perfect
Greg K posted this at 18:57 — 19th January 2005.
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I went to come here last night, and felt such an empty feeling, like freinds were gone!
I was hoping it would be back up last night after payment of the domain, but still had to wait til this morning.
Glad it's back though!
-Greg
CptAwesome posted this at 10:19 — 20th January 2005.
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Joined: Dec 2004
Well, when I went to webmaster-forums.net a couple days ago, it said the domain had expired, and I could, if I so desired have snatched it up for $14.95 apparently, so.... someone dropped the ball.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 10:53 — 20th January 2005.
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Well yes, Chad has been rather busy in recent times, even after his return, given that he's just left his business and such. It's possible he missed the domain's expiry because of that. It's back though, and it looks like he registered it.
The rest of us should probably have monitored it too, since we've already had bad experience with domains. Next time.
Greg K posted this at 20:07 — 20th January 2005.
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When I went to the site the night it went down, and followed the links to pay for the domain name, it CLEARLY stated that all I was doing was paying for one additional year for the CURRENT OWNER and the registration would NOT change. It never indicated I could take it over.
Then once it was paid for, the message on the page changed to say something like the domain name had been renewed and would be back up shortly.
-Greg
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 22:52 — 20th January 2005.
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So you paid for it, then? Not Chad? :eek:
fifeclub posted this at 20:12 — 20th January 2005.
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Joined: Feb 2001
I'm just glad it's back. Phew.
Greg K posted this at 07:04 — 22nd January 2005.
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When I saw it was expired, and it would let me pay for an additional year, I figured the $15 for it was very little compared to the advice and information I get from this forum, so I went ahead and told it to do so. I didn't get an e-mail about it yet, however it could have been lost in all my other junk mail. But the page did change to indicate the domain name was paid for so I figured it was fine.
-Greg
Megan posted this at 16:32 — 22nd January 2005.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
We love you, Greg!!!
Methinks a promotion is in order
demonhale posted this at 23:59 — 29th May 2005.
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Joined: May 2005
I just discovered this page just recently, without you greg I couldnt have found this wonderful site... Now Im Linking my site to it so i could help a little in increasing the members base...
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