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Monday, Mar 06, 2006 - 00:23 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Expired for a Day

Got several comments from various pals that they couldn't access my site, leaving me mostly clueless because it ran fine for me.

I assumed at first that one of those ubiquitous spyware programs had burrowed itself between their browsers and the wider Internet, but after the reports began to roll in I finally realised something was really wrong (still no problem on my home computer, though - have to find out why someday).

Edchong helpfully supplied a screenshot,


This site has shuffled off the mortal coil

whereupon I burst into action.

First stop, renewing the domain name... but I had forgotten both the username and password for Network Solutions. No problem, it could be sent to my pacific.net email, which has been colonized by spam for many a year. Old-school Pegasus Mail took five minutes to load the 6000+ messages I never bothered to delete, and a further five to trash them.

The pacific.net POP3 mail server then coughed up 700 of the 1500+ messages it had been holding for God knows how long, before refusing to cooperate. Thinking quickly, I logged in to Pacific Internet's account management portal and temporarily forwarded my email to my gmail. Presto, access gained.

Next was the unavoidable emergency call to dad for his credit card details :P I like to think that I don't resort to that too often - it's a sensible arrangement nevertheless. Network Solutions warned of an up to 24 hour wait, but a quick check with Ed revealed that all was back to normal. At least until 2009.



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