About the Downtime

Last year, when I began work on the latest and current version of my blog, I registered the domain name geekeri.es on September 3rd but only launched it on September 19th.

Keeping in mind the latter date, I shamelessly dismissed every renewal reminder Go Daddy has sent me during the summer. I thought I’d have a whole month to sort things out. Though the real deadline was last Saturday, and geekeri.es went down.

For a hour or two, I feared the domain name had be snapped off my hands and property. I feared I had lost the one name I’m very proud of, and that I already had left years ago when letting go of geekeries.net1.

Fortunately2, Go Daddy automatically extends the period during which it handles an expiring domain name in order for the rightful owner to have a last chance to renew ownership, and for Go Daddy to snap a redemption fee in the process.

After a few uncertain days, I finally got the domain back and started migrating my DNS over to NearlyFreeSpeech, the awesome company that hosts my many sites.

All’s back to normal.

  1. And later finding that almost everyone in the french blogosphere had taken in for their own… ↩

  2. Who would have thought, with all the fuss going on about Go Daddy, that I would say something that nice about it? ↩