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 … [Read more...]