Morons at work

A registrar I used to register domains with recently collapsed amidst allegations of fraud, misappropriation of funds, liposuction, and other unsavoury things (see www.registerflies.com ). One of the results was that I was unable to renew the domain for my revenue-generating website, classicreader.com, and lost control of the domain for about 4 days. I've managed to transfer it to another registrar and have regained control, albeit after losing income during that time.

To compound the problem, Google indexed the site during this time and now has in its cache the placeholder page of my former registrar. This means that every page that Google has indexed is identical. I can expect a sharp drop in traffic due to this and will probably have to wait a couple of months before things get back to normal.

This further convinces me to keep my day job, even though it usually pays less.