I’d become aware of the ikimashou.net fiasco when I noticed that this site had finally been added to Anime Nano, and seeing that one of the sites hosted by ikimashou.net was (and still is as of this post) spamming Anime Nano with crap posts about comics.
Update: I should stress (for at least the 3rd time in this post) that I DO NOT know what all occurred with ikimashou.net. This lesson on domain registration is merely based off of the possibility that it had expired and ways to try to ensure that doesn’t happen. From a comment below, this clearly appears to be the registrar’s problem. But I thought I’d just address this again.
Having looked around a little bit, I found that all of ikimashou.net’s websites have relocated over to dasaku.net due to, quote the owner (or former owner now) of both domains, “bullshit at my registrar.”
Now, I don’t know for sure what all happened with ikimashou.net, but given that they were celebrating their 2nd anniversary on Jan. 14th, somewhere around Jan. 18th, people were getting a domain registration error at the address, and then on the 19th, a new site popped up the domain, my guess is that the owner of the domain simply let the domain registration expire (or was unaware that it was going to expire).
Depending on what the exact circumstances are, this may or may not be a “bullshit at my registrar,” situation but maybe a “um, yeah, you do have to re-register your domain occasionally” error.
If this is a case of him not re-registering the domain, then it is likely lost for good unless he is willing to put up the money to re-buy it from the current owner. Many cyber-squatters grab up any domain that expires, under the hope that someone else may want it - or that someone forgot to re-register it and is willing to pay money to get it back. And that’s about what one would have to do since, if it fell out of registration and the registrar has no agreement to auto-renew it and someone else buys it, then it’s tough shit basically.
This is why, if you own your own domain name(s), that I recommend that you:
1) use a website whose primary service is to register domain names, like network solutions or GoDaddy, which is what I use. Most web hosts will register a name for you, and most will probably do fine if you stay with that host. But if you believe at all that you might change hosts, it’s less risky to use an established registrar.
2) If you intend to keep the domain for a while, put it on auto-renew if that option is available. For example, this domain was auto-renewed just the other day.
2a) If it is on auto-renew, make sure that whatever payment method is being used is in fact still valid!
3) Even if it is on auto-renew - and especially if it isn’t - try to at least keep in mind when it was registered and when the registration expires so you can make sure that it does, in fact, get re-registered.
4) Most registrars will email you when your domain name is about to expire. But of course getting this email depends on the email that the registrar has being current, so make sure it is. It may also be a good idea to put your registrar’s email address on any email spam white list you have as well, in case your email sees it as spam.
As I said earlier, I don’t know all the details, and maybe this was a case of the domain registrar not doing something correctly (but even then getting the name back may be difficult), but it’s good to keep some of these points in mind, I think.
And no, it’s not just Joe Shomes who forget to renew their domain names either.
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I didn’t let it expire. It was supposed to auto-renew, but I never got e-mails regarding upcoming expiration and that it had expired, any sort of warnings that I should renew or the typical thing that GOOD registrars send out to people.
So you can shit dick over how you have “domain renewal” written in you faggy day planner or something like that. I’m a busy mother fucker, I try to trust the the companies I work with will remember to fucking alert me properly to this, that and the other regarding my domains.
And, just a little tidbit for you, if I didn’t know how to renew my domain, I likely wouldn’t have kept it for the five years I had it prior to this shitsack right here.
And thus why I added “I don’t know for sure what all happened” at least twice, and heavily used the word “if” but used the possibility to talk about the topic generally.
If it was supposed to auto-renew and didn’t, then yes, that’s obviously the registrar’s problem.
And no, I don’t have my website expirations “written in my day planner” but I do generally try to remember when they expire.
In any case, something along the same lines happened to be recently anyway, except the place renewed something automatically that I didn’t want to renew (though that’s obviously an easier situation to address).
That ended up being an issue of having the correct email on file in my case, and so that tip came directly from my own recent experience.
In any case, I don’t know if you just scanned my article and thought it was saying something it didn’t, or were just in a bad mood due to this entire situation (certainly understandable), but I did my best to give an overall lesson while trying not to make a conclusion about what happened in your case. If it isn’t fully clear that that’s the case, then sorry, but I’m not sure if I’ve written a post with so many conditional statements before because of that attempt.
And just to add - I WAS right in my guess that the domain name had expired. However, I made no judgment on why or whose fault it was for it doing so, so I’m not completely sure what your issue is.