sheesh. lost jonmadison.com for a few minutes. This happened a few years ago with beats.com too for a spell. I do give it to my registrar that you get the 5 day “grace period” before the thing really goes kaput. i nearly thought someone else had grabbed it that quick. (i’ve seen it happen with plenty other domain names i would have thought it wouldn’t). anyway, a few hour later, i’m back for a few more years ;)

so, i lost beats.com over the weekend (on my mother’s 70th birthday no less!). The domain name lapsed. I have owned beats.com for 7 years. In a single weekend, it disappeared. This is ridiculous. I apparently registered this domain name through budget register, not godaddy, through who i currently have my other 21 domain names. Budget register was bought by dotmaniac. Now i don’t know how dotmaniac treats its “native customers”, but if it is how i was “taken care of”, they’re no godaddy by any stretch of the imagination.
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