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I'd find a Tucows reseller who will set up the domain registration to auto-renew each year and you won't have to worry about missing the renewal email.Or you could just renew the domain for the maximum of 10 years and not worry about it for quite a while.
BTW, I'd highly recommend configuring your in-house name servers and the one at nextlevelinternet.com to NOT allow zone transfers for audioasylum.com, except with each other. You're exposing a lot of information about your network that I imagine you don't want known by the average hacker and script kiddie.
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I never saw the renewal spam. If I'd been thinking, I would have checked on it when the birthday notice was posted a couple weeks ago. With the downward spiral on domain changes, I'd gone to an annual plan.
Don't expect domain registration fees to go down any further. The way it works is that Verisign, who has been granted the license to manage the master domain name registry for .com and .net, charges all other registrars $6 per domain year. I'd find a registrar selling for $8 or $9 per year, like GoDaddy and renew the name for many years. (GoDaddy also offers managed DNS with domain registrations, so it's a pretty good deal.)The reason your domain went black wasn't a conscious decision by any ISP to not route to audioasylum.com - it's simply a matter of how DNS works. When the name registration expired, the records pointing to audioasylum.com's name servers were deleted from the root .com servers. Since you have your TTL ('time to live', or caching time) set at 1 hour, any cached records for www.audioasylum.com, audioasylum.com, etc. expired on most outside DNS servers after just 1 hour. Some ISPs have their caching DNS servers set up to not honor the TTLs, or else they set a minimum on the TTL to 1 day, so the IP addresses for the AA may have persisted a bit longer at these ISPs.
If your IP addresses aren't changing that often, it would probably be a good idea to raise the default TTL on the main records to at least 1 day.
GoDaddy looks great. You're right, it can't go any lower than that. I think I'll just transfer all the domain and renew for 10 years.Then it'll be a long time before this happens again!
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