Real Life Expiring

I used to be a very active blogger in my everyday affairs. I worked with a website with my own domain name over at lewismoten.com.


Sharlett Shan sent me a message telling me that her RSS reader that she purchased from me had stopped working. I asked for the URL she was working with and tried it out myself. Oddly enough, nothing happened.


I setup the RSS reader to spit out the raw html that it got back from the server and saw a lot of cascading style sheet information. I immediately hit my own domain for lewismotne.com and found that it was parked with godadday. What?!?


I ran over to godaddy and had to scratch my head trying to figure out the password to get in. It’s been so long since I’ve worked with them. I got in and saw that my domain expired a few days ago, and the email they had on file was the one I had about seven years ago. Oops!


I renewed my domain name for two years and updated my contact information. Now I have to go through the pain of waiting for everyones DNS servers to update against the latest information to realize my domain is online again.


I hate to keep people waiting like this. I told Sharlett that it may take a couple days until her RSS Reader starts working again. This is the primary reason why I developed it so that people could use the sss property and point to their own server directly to transform RSS into SSS feeds. Unfortunately, a lot of people are not technical to do this on their own.


If things got really bad, I could always redistribute a new version to hit against a different server. I feel a bit embarassed for letting the domain expire. I don’t pay attention to the real-life blog anymore. The sub-domain for second life is not used that much as well.