-yea, they said that I can reinstate it for an easy 80.00 plus the yearly fee. piece of cake. Also I need to send them ID proof that I am the person that controls the account. Notarized stuff, tax papers from Mogeo might work, (yea right).
1planhost started jacking me around a year ago. I was still paid up on my 1planhost year of hosting but since their servers shut down, that didn't matter, we were all off line and dead in the water. I needed to find some new servers pronto and then change the domain name pointers to point to from the old 1planhost servers to the new ones with Invision power services (My forum host). Even with new servers, if the domain name points to the wrong place, nothing happens.
Technically, I was not even able to have the domain pointers changed to other servers like i did. The standard run a round that 1plan was giving other users was that they were locked into their servers for something like 180 days before they were allowed to make a change and then they had to pay a fee to change their domain pointers.
I had to pull some strings and have someone hack into the domain server place and change the pointers on the domain from the old servers to my new servers. I found an old and hacked off employee that still could get into the computer to go in and change the numbers for me but only if I swore that I never told anyone who he was because 3000 other pi**ed off customers would be at his door wanting the same. Once I could at least point to good servers, the site was back up for a while. My next adventure was trying to change control of the domain registration from 1plan to anyone else like godaddy or whoever. I was never able to get that done.
I knew that if i could not get control back and at least renew, things would die out. No support, no info on who to send money to, 1plan wouldn't answer anything. It was just a mess.
Same thing happened to a friends restaurant. One day a Porn site showed up at his restaurant domain. That surprised a lot of the locals looking for the Sunday buffet. :-) His fee was 350 to get his name back. He didn't do it either so I guess 80.00 is not a bad deal.
I don't really want to start fresh, I know lot of websites are pointing to mogeo.com. I just don't have enough money to pay to get the mogeo name back AND keep the Mogeo forums running. People use the forums a lot, No one really went to mogeo anyway. I still have the info out there I just need to get the word out again and let the old domain name go and quit fighting with them. I am just tired of all the hassles. It ceased to be fun quite a while back.
Jack Konecker wrote:
> Paul tried to get something going > and did not get all that far either.What I found out is who the domain registrar is.I emailed their support staff, who directed me to a form that Glenn would have to fill out and send back, along with a picture ID and signature, if he wanted to get the domain back under hiscontrol. I forwarded that info to Glenn. Support did not say what it would cost to getthe domain back, but under their general guidelines, once a domain expires, it goes into a 30-day grace period where the $80 reinstatement fee comes into play. I do not know whether or not the domain in question is under 'special consideration' because the previous web post of www.mogeo.com <http://www.mogeo.com> 1planhost.com) went out-of-business. That is still a mystery.It's a mute point if Glenn wants to start outfresh and use only the new domain name. Prior to August 12, 2007, a link to www.mogeo.com <http://www.mogeo.com> would redirect you to the current, active web siteof www.mocache.net <http://www.mocache.net>. Now, you are taken to a genericregistrar 'park' web page.
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