After a really, really, really long time (around 72 days), I was able to snag the domain back once it expired. I had to let it expire. Trust me, not a day went by that I didn’t think about this domain. Apparently, my previous hosting company uses a domain reseller from Australia called Melbourne-IT. I tried to release my domain from them completely, but it deleted it from their registry instead. I called them up and asked them why they deleted it, and they told me that’s how they release the domains. This is fine, however, when they deleted the domain from their system, it also caused the domain to go under a reclaim period. This was a 72 day period where nobody could touch the domain (not even me) unless I payed their renewal fee. I asked them how much it would cost me in USD. The response? $250… I told them I had never seen a company charge over $10.00 (and even those are the crappy companies) to renew a domain. They told me that this was their price, and it wasn’t going anywhere. I told them to fuck themselves, and that I’d see’em April 1′st. Those son-of-a-bastards caused me some unnecessary heartache (oh electricimpulse.net, I’ve missed you so!) losing everything I had on the server (luckily, I had already backed everything up via autobackup) including all the emails and subdomains, etc… but that’s not the point. The point is the question who? Who, in their right mind, would pay an outrageous fee like that. Stupid assholes. Now I’ve got to redo the entire fucking blog all over again. Expect some updates to the website over time, but it’s going to take a bit to mold it back the way it was. That’s OK, though… this time it’ll be better than the last time. I really just have no direction whatsoever for this blog. Hell, the blog can take a shit for all I care, I just want to make sure my baby electricimpulse.net stays in my name. Isn’t that right my little sweet domain? Yes… yes, it is! It’s mine… my own… my… precious…