It's finally good to have my blog online after six months. I'm not a techie (and I’m sure they will have a good laugh if they ever read this piece) but I didn’t fathom trying to keep your domain could be this challenging. Since I hadn't renewed my domain it expired somewhere towards the end of Feb. Fair enough! But how was I to know it was expiring? I expected the domain registration company to drop me a reminder mail but that never happened. Then began the arduous process of figuring out who my registrar was and how I could renew it again. While I did find my registrar for some strange reason I couldn’t renew it as the expiry was in grace period or some BS! In the last week it finally started showing up as domain available and I bought it through an Indian registrar this time. Too my surprise domain registration through a local registrar is more costly than going through an international registrar. Anyways, I still went ahead as I could call the local company if help was needed.
Then began the painful process of connecting my blog archive hosted at blogspot to the renewed domain (when I had purchased the custom domain through blogspot last time it was automatically configured). After a few days of reading the ever so simple (so they claim!) google instructions and speaking to a customer service agent at my local registrar's I gave up. Finally, my brother in law (a techie at heart not by profession) came to my rescue and got them synced up somewhat. Some more work is still required to get my domain name without the blogspot in it but atleast the blog is online again :-).
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