A few weeks ago BBGameZone vanished completely from the Internet. Most of the site was nothing to write about, but the forums were easily the number one resource for people developing or running PBBGs. It was also the site that ran the PBBG contest just last year so it was something of a surprise when the domain expired and it never seemed to come back...
However, it's back now. Apparently the fellow running it before isn't going to be doing so anymore, he will just participate as another user now. But all the forum data is back and the forums are up in a new home at BBGameZone.net. In a few weeks the grace period for renewing the old domain will have expired and we can hope that someone sympathetic to the site will end up with it, in which case the site will be moved back to its old address.
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All domains that expire are immediately purchased by one of several companies that all have the same basic business. If the website gets enough traffic in the next five days for advertising to cover the basic cost of the domain name, they'll keep it registered. If not, they'll delete it before the grace period is up for their full money back.
ReplyDeleteAs the website actually got some deliberate traffic and there are links to it, there's no way they'll let it go for anything less than a few hundred or thousand dollars once they have it. You should talk to your registrar and see if there's anything you can do to recover it, otherwise consider it gone permanently.
(I used to work at a domain name registry, so I've seen a lot of how these businesses work.)
Hey, you still own bbGameZone.net ? This is Sim from bbGameZone
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