I’m down!

If I had a dollar for every time this happens, I’d have about $20.00 … Maybe I exaggerate, or maybe it just happens so often to piss me off for me to post about it … I get the call, “Oh my god! What did you do? I can’t get to my web site! You’re down! I’m down?! What the heck did you do??” So, I go to GoDaddy.Com … click on the WHOIS at the bottom links section … Lookup the domain that’s “down” … and there it sits, expired … I guess what upsets me the most about it is that when there’s a problem, the first place the finger points is at me … The labor I put into the network, connection and monitoring is probably more than most ISPs do … and I’m only one person … I can never understand how someone could have their domain name expire … I get tons of emails letting me know of upcoming domain expirations (which I find annoying that they let me know 90 days in advance, but at least it’s placed in my mind what domains are coming up), and I check almost weekly the domains I manage for their expiration dates … The fee is nominal, and it makes no sense for anyone who wants their web site to remain active to keep that nominal fee paid …