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An Enforced Break

You may have noticed that for the past 2 days this site has been parked.  Thankfully, no one took the name while it was down.  To avoid unnecessary panic, here’s what happened:

On the 14th, the domain registration expired and should have been renewed - I didn’t receive a mail notification and so it went unnoticed.  It went unnoticed because at the same time, two other things happened - there were routing problems at my host (Brinkster) and my laptop went kaput.  So I was entirely off the net.

Thanks to Dominic for alerting me via Facebook and thanks to Justin at Brinkster for sorting things out - while I signed up for another two years he spotted that for some reason the name servers had been removed from the account.
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