Blackburn Buccaneer Society

Apologies once again for the website being off line for the past few days.

No excuses - the Domain Name i.e. Buccsociety.com was not renewed, hosting on 34SP server was but not Domain Name hence your computer no doubt came up with the error message -Site not found or similar.

34SP Tech Support were very good and it was a Sunday when I found the problem and they quickly identified the "glitch", a quick phone call to Nigel G on Sunday, plastic was used and lo, we are back in business.

So if ever you look after a website, ensure that in addition to the Hosting Invoice being paid, the Domain Invoice is paid as well.

To give you an idea of how much this site costs to host on 34SP servers, here are the details:

Service	Cost	Comments
Hosting	£17.95 per year	Renewable every 1 year
Domain	£20.00 every 2 years	Renewable every 2 years
Total	£27.95 per year

If you would like to see what 34SP do offer, please follow this link.

The following information is from 34SP Knowledge Base on Domain names:

'If your domain name has expired and 30 days have passed, it may fall into the 'redemption period' state.

If this occurs, the domain will be held for a total of 90 days. The domain name can be removed from this state for a fee of roughly £120 to £140. This fee includes a mandatory payment fee to the domain registry of approximately £116 and a two year renewal of the domain name with 34SP.com.

The registry fee is mandatory and is not set by 34SP.com. This fee is out of our hands and is non-negotiable.

If you choose to wait until this period passes, the domain will enter a state known as 'pending delete' after 90 days where it will be unrenewable for 5 more days. It will finally return to the public domain where it can be purchased as new.

You should be cautious however, in allowing your domain to return back to the public domain. A number of companies operate domain monitoring services. These systems are used to register domain names the very second a domain is released back into the public domain. It is then common to find the new owners charging inflated prices for the resale of the domains.'

Nige C

BBS Webmaster

6 August 2007