The domain name registration for my food blog expired. Somehow I missed the 10 million emails telling me I needed to renew it. I can either wait 80 days to see if someone else buys it first and then offers to sell it back to me at an outrageous price, or I can pay the domain name company a $70 penalty fee. Plus $15.00 to transfer the domain to Hostgator, I assume that’s for one year’s registration.
So, I posted all of this on Facebook, and proposed a fundraiser of sorts to help me get MomCooks back up and running. I’m offering sidebar ads for $10 per month, and I’ve sold three so far plus received a donation from the wonderful Anne of The Megalomanic Mommy, who also posted about my plight on her blog and put up a donation button for me! Don’t tell me Mommy bloggers aren’t supportive of each other, I’ve got proof they are right here 
I can’t direct you over to MomCooks to take a look yourself and decide if you’d like to run an ad there, but I can show you a cached page and give you my Google Analytics stats. Click that cached page link, the ads will run on the left sidebar directly under the “Kiss the Cook” section.
MomCooks Stats: Last month’s traffic – 11, 387 Traffic this month so far – 8,201
So, if you’d like to purchase a sidebar ad on MomCooks.net for the bargain price of $10 per month, please use this PayPal donation button.
I promise, next year I’ll have the renewal date on my calendar and I won’t forget
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I’ve done that same thing before. I forgot to change the contact email on one of my domains and didn’t get any of the notices and poof it slipped right out from under me and someone sniper bought it then tried to sell it back to me for 2,500 dollars. I went and bought a different domain name and took it as a lesson learned. Now I obsessively check once a month to see if any of my domains are expiring!
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I had exactly the same problem yesterday with Godaddy. They deleted one of my domains that I though was on auto-renew. My card had expired, but I never got a warning to say the domain was going. It’s gone now though – over 6 weeks. Will have to write the site off, wasn’t really doing much with it, but it’s the principle.
FYI – has anyone mentioned Snapnames.com – you can use it to catch domains when they drop. Provided it’s uncontested, you can grab a dropping domain for a one off fee of $59. However, if goes to auction, you could end up paying a lot more.
I think that they could be even more clear with the fact that ones domain is expiring. I keep having problems with that, and I would appreciate it a lot if they could send more heads up-mails.
Anyway, nice blog, thanks for posting!