That’s my signature seminar that I launched in 2012. Focused on how to make money online. It was a great success and a few months later I started receiving messages from my students that they had put my lessons into practice and were cashing in.
I’ve been planning to hold more seminars in the coming months.
Today a member of my team tried to log in to the website to watch some of the videos I had posted up.
And this happened:
My domain expired.
I’ve always dismissed people who allow their domains to expire as dumb.
After 8 years it finally happened to me.
I take comfort in the fact that Google gave me 2 billion results when I searched how to get it back. In my mind it means I’m not the only dumbass out there… Right?
It turns out someone had put down a booking fee for my domain internetincomeintensive.com.
If you’ve never heard of domain drop catching a.k.a. domain sniping, it’s basically the practice of registering a domain name that has just expired. Why would anyone want to do this? It’s a big big money making business.
A person buys a recently expired domain, then sells it back to the original owner. Sometimes at a ridiculously high price. It all depends on how much that domain is worth to its original owner.
In my case, internetincomeintensive.com is pretty much priceless.
Now domain registrars will send notifications to your email when your domain is close to expiring. But I have hundreds of registered domains so I set it such that all those emails went directly into a folder. Which I never open. Ever.
Luckily for me I was able to reactivate my domain:
You are able to reactivate your domain within 40 days of its expiry for free. The longer you wait to renew the domain, the less likely you are to get it back, and the higher the fee you’d have to pay.
So what’s the moral of the story, girls and boys?
For domains that you intend to keep for the long-term. For domains that are dear to you. For domains that are making you money. For domains that build your brand. In fact, from now on, for every domain I ever purchase.
Always Enable Auto-Renew.
