[The title of this post is a homage to one of my favourite albums: Christine Lavin’s Beau Woes and Other Problems of Modern Life. An album with such classics as Prince Charles, Air Conditioning, Ballad of a Ballgame and Doris and Edwin The Movie.]

So you might have noticed that my domain name expired and redsultana.com was out of commission for a day or so over the weekend.

I can’t believe how bad it made me feel. Like a shag on a rock… or possibly a tree. 🙂

Apart from feeling like my whole arm was chopped off it really took from me the power to communicate. It felt as if someone was compressing the oxygen tube. Yes. I was gasping.

Ironically, just the night before (at the clever dinner) I was chatting with Silvertongue about this very blog. She was asking me why I did it and didn’t it feel a bit like an invasion of privacy and how did I feel about complete strangers knowing about my life…

I told her that it was almost compulsive now. That I’ve never had success in keeping a diary but for the last five years have blogged nearly every week, lately every day. My theory is that I need you to read it to validate writing it. Which at the time felt a bit sad but then when you think about it why write a diary at all unless you want it to be read – possibly by your ancestors but at the very least by yourself.

So my obsessive compulsive blogging justified I jumped online at the first opportunity on Saturday and uploaded the photos from our dinner.

Five minutes later my site had disappeared.

What the hell happened to my website?!

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Turns out that that random email was supposed to be my email address. (I know… n00b!)

So my domain name expires and my website disappears and I work out (pretty quickly at that point) that I needed to change the administrative email address to mine and did so but then of course I couldn’t transfer my domain for 60 days under the rules. WTF!

I decided to renew my domain name with my old provider for another year, and then I find out that because it was expired it will take 24-72 hours to restore.

Well at least that’s shorter than 60 days.

At that point, I took a deep breath. There was absolutely nothing more I could do. I breathed in. I breathed out. I got a large glass of wine and watched Doctor Who and Australian Idol.

I set my alarm. I went to bed.

Today my site came back. I am whole.

Lessons Learned

Make sure the administrative email associated with your domain name is actually yours. If it isn’t, change it now. Just do it.