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Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by patio11 »

oof

This happened to me once, too. For what it's worth:

a) make sure GoDaddy has a monitored email address on file

b) sweep all domains you own once a year, as a repeatable process, on a particular day.

c) If you operate a going concern, go right now and bump your main domain name(s) to 10 years. This costs less than an hour of downtime will.

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by holdenc »

patio11 wrote: post #6

oof This happened to me once, too. For what it's worth: a) make sure GoDaddy has a monitored email address on file b) sweep all domains you own once a year, as a repeatable process, on a particular day. c) If you operate a going concern, go right now and bump your main domain name(s) to 10 years. This costs less than an hour of downtime will.

Bumping your domain to 10 years can help search rank as well.

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

bbhacker wrote: post #3

Curious to hear how that happened :)

It happens more often than we think (2 times with some customers I know of).

Once it was because the registrar email went into the spam box, the other time because the person that was indicated as the contact had left the company.

I think it's worth putting an alarm into your google calendar, with one occurrence each year, 15 days before, with a SMS + email notification, just in case!

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by holdenc »

ig1 wrote: post #4
bbhacker wrote: post #3

Curious to hear how that happened :)

I'm guessing they had it on auto-renew but didn't have a valid credit card registered with godaddy (i.e the card they registered with expired) or something.

Godaddy told me that you get a week of uptime after the first declined auto-renewal charge.
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