A couple of minutes ago I went to log in to my Movable Type system to post an entry about a website I had read about in the New York Times. It was related to that woeful font, Comic Sans MS. But then I hit a snag. For some reason my Movable Type login screen wouldn't load. So I tried to just plain look at my blog. That didn't work either. So then, in desperation, I typed in www.kibeland.com into my web browser. Guess what came up. One of those pages you see that says, "This page is coming soon!" At first I thought I had typed the URL wrong. However, as subsequent attempts revealed, I had not. Then the truth sank in. My domain name had expired and the hosting company had not had the tact to send me a notice.

So then I thought, "Well, I guess you could just renew it - it's only $10," however, this too would prove troublesome. A quick visit to Network Solutions revealed this. Some stupid company that crawls the web to snap up your domain name the second it expires had done it to me. I didn't even want to look at how much they were going to charge me to have the domain. Probably something nutty in the $200 range. Only something such as news.com would be worth $200.

Now the harsh truth has come upon me. I need to find a new domain name and a new hosting company. Additionally, I have to use this as my temporary home on the web. This is the second time this had happened to me, and it's not going to happen again.