Today my domain peace'd out.

Yeah, this morning was fantastic. I woke up to no email, no website. No nuttin.

I called my hosting company. They said my domain had expired. I told them, well, renew it. They couldn't. It was owned by my previous hosting company.

So I called them, the lazy sods. They told me that yep, the domain was expired. I should renew it with my current host.

That's excellent.

I called my current host back, and after begging them to look at it closer for me, they determined that the domain name was owned by Tucows.com. A domain name reseller. I did a whois lookup on myself at that site, and wouldn't you know it, my old host still had control.

I promptly called them back up and demanded that they give me access to something that allows me to reinstate my domain name, since they DID have control over it, and I was basically dead in the water until they did something.

Finally, they set up a temporary account for me to pay for and re-register the domain name. Within minutes, it was all kittens and daisies, and I was back up and running.

I was nervous about it because I just got last weekend's motorcycle race photos up, and I was freaking out because people have started purchasing photos. If they couldn't get to the site...they couldn't get photos...and I'd lose money. That would suck.

We are settling back in for another 4 month stretch of Arbor rebuilding a house for us. They found the presence of mold contamination in the house finally early this week. We pulled out of the deal immediately, telling them we were finished. They called us back and offered us a deal we can't really walk away from, so we decided to give it a try again. We'll see if their word holds true on Sunday when we go see the paperwork. Here's hoping for some good luck to come our way!