Re: payswarm.com expired!

On 01/05/2013 09:18 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
> http://payswarm.com gives me GoDaddy page saying: NOTICE: This
> domain name expired on 01/04/2013 and is pending renewal or deletion

Thanks for catching that - the domain has been renewed (along with
payswarm.org).

Here's what we know right now:

payswarm.com is configured to auto-renew whenever it expires.

We received a notice from GoDaddy at 4:32am EST, that they couldn't bill
the credit cards we had on file with them. There was one card that was
expired and another one that doesn't expire until 2014. All domains were
setup to use the card that doesn't expire until 2014. For whatever
reason, GoDaddy used the card that had expired and immediately disabled
the DNS entry.

I went in and manually clicked "Renew" using the non-expired card and it
worked.

The only thing that I can guess is that some part of their system
remembers the credit card you used to recharge the domain and it tried
to use the now-expired card from two years ago to activate payswarm.com.

This also raised an issues in our website monitoring framework. We
monitor to make sure we get a response back for payswarm.com (HTTP 200)
- we don't check to make sure that response contains the correct website
information. We'll try to fix that in the coming weeks.

The domain has been renewed until 2015, but the DNS entry hasn't updated
itself. We'll keep an eye on it throughout the day and make sure that
the DNS entry updates itself. Thanks for catching it, Pavlik. :)

-- manu

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Received on Saturday, 5 January 2013 15:00:23 UTC