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static2k
09-03-2004, 05:39 PM
I have had my account since 7/25/01, and every year I get a bill for $20 along with the bill for the 6 month plan. This year when I payed the bill it wasn't on there, but I didn't notice.

I didn't notice because this year I decided to switch to the two year plan. I made the payment for $238.80 on 9/1/04 for the two year plan, and on 9/2/04 I notice my website is down, here is the responce to the trouble ticket I send:

The problem here is limited to your registration of the domain name static2k.com. I hate to be the bearer of bad news however your domain expired some time back and has recently passed into a special 30 day RedemptionPeriod status from which extraction is costly (in addition to the regular $20.00 domain registration charge the global registry imposes a $150.00 administrative fee to redeem domains which have slipped into the RedemptionPeriod)...

...however despite our best efforts the domain
expired on 7/27 and passed into the RedemptionPeriod
status on 9/2.

I thought I had payed the bill for the host service and domain name like in the past, but I guess I only had payed for the hosting service and the domain was not included on the bill? Either way, the domain name went into "redemtionperiod" the day after I payed.

Did I mess up? How was I supposed to go about paying for the domain name if it wasn't on my bill?

I'm at a loss of what to do because I cannot afford the $170 to get my site back up, and I will be taking a great loss from my site being down any longer. Any advice?

Thanks in advance, Jason.

Brendan
09-06-2004, 09:13 PM
Hi,

You should have gotten at least 4 emails from our company regarding your domain name being up for renewal soon, did you receive them?

-Brendan

static2k
09-06-2004, 10:39 PM
I didn't receive any e-mails.

Brendan
09-06-2004, 11:54 PM
they would have been sent to the email account you have on file with us for billing purposes, they are sent automatically 1x a week for the month previous to your domain expiring.

-Brendan

static2k
09-08-2004, 01:26 AM
why wasnt it included in the bill that i payed?