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Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

holdenc wrote: post #8
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.

I'm really curious on this one (that I heard quite a few times): did you saw a real effect yourself or on known sites ?

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by dmix »

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #11
holdenc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm really curious on this one (that I heard quite a few times): did you saw a real effect yourself or on known sites ?

"Google’s patent “Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data” of 03/31/2005 reviewed by WebmasterWorld forum hugely accounted for these rumors implying that Google does look into domain registration (1) and renewal (2) dates:

(1) … the date that a domain with which a document is registered may be used as an indication of the inception date of the document.

(2) Certain signals may be used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains. … Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith."

Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/domain-age-how-important-...

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by iaskwhy »

holdenc wrote: post #8
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.

From the horse's mouth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1_1NQWQJ2Q

Matt doesn't say it's not part of the algorithm but he gives the idea it's not that important.

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

#17

Post by webwright »

Here's what happened-- not too pleased with GoDaddy.

We had the domain set to autorenew every 2 years. The card # was no longer valid (one of the frequent instances where banks randomly send out new credit cards and invalidate old ones to keep ahead of fraudsters?).

The amazing thing is that GoDaddy sent the notice that the billing failed at midnight last night. And parked the domain. No grace period.

All of the domains that I DON'T have set to autorenew, GoDaddy bombards me with notices. This? No note to indicate that it's about to be renewed after 2 years. No courtesy note saying, "hey, even though you have 15 domain names that you've paid for successfully, this one isn't auto-renewing successfully-- maybe use another card?".

They just parked the domain.

Given this, I think it is MUCH safer to NOT auto-renew.

Anyhoo, I just renewed it. Apologies to folks who were inconvenienced-- no data will be lost.

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by webwright »

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.

That is exactly it. GoDaddy doesn't give any sort of courtesy heads up. Expiration date was yesterday at midnight. When billing failed (despite the fact that I'm a customer in good standing with a mess of other domains) they IMMEDIATELY parked the domain. I imagine I selected auto-renew because it seemed like I was less likely to screw up renewing the domain. I no longer think that's the safe path.

Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by [deleted] »

webwright wrote: post #17

Here's what happened-- not too pleased with GoDaddy. We had the domain set to autorenew every 2 years. The card # was no longer valid (one of the frequent instances where banks randomly send out new credit cards and invalidate old ones to keep ahead of fraudsters?). The amazing thing is that GoDaddy sent the notice that the billing failed at midnight last night. And parked the domain. No grace period. All of the doma…

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Re: Rescuetime.com domain expired

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Post by diN0bot »

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.

a) don't use GoDaddy. period.
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