Expired Domain??

[rbargeron]

Did TBN's domain temporarily turn into a pumpkin this morning? Any TBN access I tried got redirected to a page saying the domain had expired.

 

[Rick Jay]

The same thing happened to me. I'm glad to see things are better now.

~Rick

 

[rbargeron]

It happened more times - the redirection is to

http://expired.revenuedirect.com/park.php?domain_name=TRACTORBYNET.COM&site_id=35427

I think I remember something like this happening a few years ago - pretty easy thing to overlook (assuming its legitimate !! )

 

[IH3444]

Same here early this morning.......my heart was breaking!

 

[Muhammad]

There seems to have been a glitch in the auto-renew of our domain name, but it's all sorted out now. Not sure why that screen was appearing at all, but it shouldn't appear anymore, and if it does, don't worry---we're not letting our domain name expire!

 

[ultrarunner]

I'm still getting "Expired Domain" about every other time I log-in.

 

[Hakim]

The issue has definitely been fixed on TBN side.

You may have to delete your TBN cookie, or close and reopen your browser. Sometimes the ISP service holds pages in its cache for a day or more.

Also Bird (one of the top expert TBN moderators), made this suggestion over on CBN:

""Try hitting <shift> and your refresh (reload) button at the same time. You may have the old, expired page stuck in your browser's cache."

Hope this helps.

 

[Bird]

The issue has definitely been fixed on TBN side.

You may have to delete your TBN cookie, or close and reopen your browser. Sometimes the ISP service holds pages in its cache for a day or more.

Also Bird (one of the top expert TBN moderators), made this suggestion over on CBN:

""Try hitting <shift> and your refresh (reload) button at the same time. You may have the old, expired page stuck in your browser's cache."

Hope this helps.

But I can't take credit for it, if it works. I was just quoting chrisjbell, another member, and apparently at least for one other member on CBN, it didn't work for him.

But I sure would think the suggestion to delete any TBN cookies would be a good one. I periodically, at least once a month, let Norton SystemWorks delete all cookies, clear the cache, clear the Internet history, etc.

 

[Lynkage]

I can get here at home but not at work. The DNS will take a while to refresh across the US. About 24 hours. It takes this long for all Domain servers to refresh.
I sure missed this place. There are a bunch of really good people here!!

Thanks TBN Moderators for getting us back up and running!!!!!!

 

[tallyho8]

I finally got back on a little after 8 pm. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[k6dyc]

It really did expire according to the whois record. It may take a day or so for everyone to be able to get back on, it will depend on who they use for DNS resolution, and how often they update their DNS records from the root servers.

 

[Hakim]

Rick,

Even though technically the renewal was not paid, the URL did not expire. We have something like 30 or 60 days to renew without our domain registrar releasing the name for sale. So there really was no possibility of losing the name due to this issue.

Hopefully everyone will be back in and properly jawboning full-time by tomorrow AM.

 

[k6dyc]

Hakim, I understand, and I'm certainly glad that TBN got it re-established so quickly. I just meant that I initially thought that there was a scam or hijacking, but then found that the expiration date had actually passed, as one of mine did recently. I too was able to renew right away, well before the name was released. Redirecting the web traffic certainly has a way of getting ones attention .

 

[mathey]

*whew* i was wondering why Websense at work was flagging TBN as inappropriate!