Don't Take Away My Cartoons!
The last couple of days have been quite hectic for ToonJet.com. If you haven't been around in a couple of days, ToonJet was totally offline with what seemed like no hope for getting it back online...ever.
When I went to check the website late on Wednesday night, ToonJet had been replaced with a generic search page! Yes, the kind that appear when a website expires. So, I thought, did I forget to pay my bills? Has somebody hacked the website? What happened to my precious cartoons? Well, after an INTENSE investigation, I found out a few things that I wasn't aware of, but luckily, as you can see, I was able to get the potentially legal situation under control.
When ToonJet was first created, the domain name was registered before the website was actually created. So then, when I obtained a host for the web space, I had put in a request to have it transfered from the original registrar to the new one. I was told it was all underway, and I guess my mistake was that I went about my business and assumed it was done.
Apparently, the domain had expired after 1 year after not being transferred to my website provider, though it worked for the entire year. The domain name was then passed on to a reseller, who then put up the generic search page until it was sold.
Luckily, I found all this out in time to go and buy back the domain name, which I registered for 5 years. At least now you can sleep soundly knowing that you won't be without your favorite Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye cartoons for a long, long time. At least I will, anyway... :D
J.T.
When I went to check the website late on Wednesday night, ToonJet had been replaced with a generic search page! Yes, the kind that appear when a website expires. So, I thought, did I forget to pay my bills? Has somebody hacked the website? What happened to my precious cartoons? Well, after an INTENSE investigation, I found out a few things that I wasn't aware of, but luckily, as you can see, I was able to get the potentially legal situation under control.
When ToonJet was first created, the domain name was registered before the website was actually created. So then, when I obtained a host for the web space, I had put in a request to have it transfered from the original registrar to the new one. I was told it was all underway, and I guess my mistake was that I went about my business and assumed it was done.
Apparently, the domain had expired after 1 year after not being transferred to my website provider, though it worked for the entire year. The domain name was then passed on to a reseller, who then put up the generic search page until it was sold.
Luckily, I found all this out in time to go and buy back the domain name, which I registered for 5 years. At least now you can sleep soundly knowing that you won't be without your favorite Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye cartoons for a long, long time. At least I will, anyway... :D
J.T.
