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Is it normal that it will expire? What will happen? How often do websites get this close? tell me everything aaaaaa --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:01, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
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Hi Lettherebedarklight, it's me. Could you kindly change the heading of your userpage so that it lets others know that the page is your user page, and not "raeb"? Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 18:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
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:Drafting up a email to Davidy22 and Jeff right now regarding this issue. '''[[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 16:32, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
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:I'm not sure that's required by WP policies? --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:49, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
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:i hope some sort of auto renew is on [[user:lett‪herebedarklight|this website's domain expires in august]] 00:49, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
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:i'm raeb, who's this "Lettherebedarklight" you're talking about? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight|raeb]] 14:46, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
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::Look at the "last renewed" date, the cycle is obviously year-by-year, so not that worrying. Barring the on-record payment details suddenly becoming invalid for any number of reasons, and the payee not caring to correct, or an active decision for the same person to call it a day and abort the renewal.
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::Well... they don't show up in searches. So technically it's not affecting anybody. But I'll double-check the WP policies to make sure. Yours truly, --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 12:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
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::If the cycle had been five years or ten years, or anything where 2009->2025 divided neatly into a larger number (say 8, but not so much the far more recent 4), then I might be worried that a not-so-active domain owner ''had'' manually renewed the last time "your N-year ownership fee is expiring soon, please log in to reserve it for the next N years" happened but was significantly at risk of being no longer able (or caring) to do it this time round.
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:::Well, I've checked with my Wikipedia mentor, and these rules do not apply to independent wikis. So, unless an Admin has something to say about it, I think you're good. Feel free to keep your weird userpage names, I guess. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 13:59, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
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::Of course, still could happen that way for N=1, last year, but the intervention/inertia happening so recently sort of proves that it's something the registree (and registrar) is still on top of. It's also like acting surprised that '''somebody has a birthday sometime this year'''. The number of people who ''don't'' is very roughly 0.07%, but I suspect {{w|The Pirates of Penzance|that particular loophole}} doesn't even exist where annual subscriptions are involved...  Anyway, if you'd have looked at this same page one year ago, you'd probably have had exactly the ''exact same'' apparent immediacy looming, yet we got past it.
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::Not to say that this is not the one year when it ''won't'' get renewed, just that the odds aren't high enough, on all available evidence.
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::Also, if the domain and the hosting server aren't linked as a package deal (and I suspect that they aren't, with actual techy/nerdy types at the blunt end of this whole site, but haven't cared to track down that information), domain-loss doesn't mean automatic site-loss. Inconvenience, maybe, and frustration for us while it's sorted. Chances of a cyber-squatter leaping in for traffic capture/spoofing-for-profit? And/or hoping to make a high return on re-selling back to the initially forgetful past-owner when the mistake is realised. But the site software/database is probably intact enough, until the totally different time when the data is wiped (hosting or rack-space contract isn't renewed, or a sufficiently bad hardware (and backup hardware) crash that could actually happen ''any time at all'' without any so obvious forewarning!).
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Why does the Chinese in your leaderboard name translate to 'The management committee's bonfire could not be "granted" by the People's Liberation Army. You went to manage it.'? Is this a reference I'm not getting? <div style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px; width: 760px; line-height: 150%;" class="plainlinks">--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup></div>
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::A further point-of-failure (also recoverable, eventually, ''if'' there's someone still willing and able to manage the necessary changes) is if the Cloudflare proxy service ends, for any reason (e.g. proxy fees unpaid, Cloudflare itself stops operating, etc). Again, not something I can easily predict. But it puts the seemingly annual renewal process into perspective. I wouldn't actually start ''really'' worrying until the anniversary of the last renew passes (and then at least to the next working day, or two, inncas3 that's applicable), with about a month left to go, and still no sign of change.
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::''NB'': to avoid the recursive templating, for something like that on your User page, one could 'includeonly' the workings on ''this'' page (if you had nowhere else to put it) and then transclude this one on the other, instead to neatly get whatever you wanted to appear there. I could suggest a sub-page (User:Lettherebedarklight/domaintime, or similar), but not for something that (one way or another!) is going to no longer be relevent after not too long.
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::HTH, HAND! [[Special:Contributions/172.69.224.74|172.69.224.74]] 05:31, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
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:It is likely a random keyboard-smash done when the computer is in Chinese Input Mode. The initial letters spell <code>gwhghwfjfj'cie'nqngliof?</code>, which is likely a result of keyboard-smash done by a human on a QWERTY keyboard. [[User:ExplainEuge.ca|ExplainEuge.ca]] ([[User talk:ExplainEuge.ca|talk]]) 08:47, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
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:::Hey could you give us a summary of your answer pls? I'm interested in this. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 17:23, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
 
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::::"Is it normal that it will expire?" Yes. Commercial domain registrations have expiry/renewel cycles. Length may depend on the registrar and the domain.
 
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::::"What will happen?" Your browser wouldn't know how to get here, from the "explainxkcd.com" name. But 'here' could still exist. ''May'' even be accessible by some obscure IP, which you're not likely to be told.
 
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::::"How often do websites get this close?" If it's set to be renewed every year... '''every year'''. Renewal last year was one-month-minus-one-day before the 'birthday date', ''heavily'' implying it got down to that, then auto-renewed with zero fuss. (Or dealt with manually in a very efficient manner.)
 
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::::"tell me everything aaaaaa" See above, for starters..? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.186.141|172.68.186.141]] 20:59, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
 

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Hi Lettherebedarklight, it's me. Could you kindly change the heading of your userpage so that it lets others know that the page is your user page, and not "raeb"? Thanks, 42.book.addictTalk to me! 18:24, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure that's required by WP policies? --FaviFake (talk) 10:49, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
i'm raeb, who's this "Lettherebedarklight" you're talking about? raeb 14:46, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Well... they don't show up in searches. So technically it's not affecting anybody. But I'll double-check the WP policies to make sure. Yours truly, --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 12:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
Well, I've checked with my Wikipedia mentor, and these rules do not apply to independent wikis. So, unless an Admin has something to say about it, I think you're good. Feel free to keep your weird userpage names, I guess. --DollarStoreBa'alconverse 13:59, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

The chinese[edit]

Why does the Chinese in your leaderboard name translate to 'The management committee's bonfire could not be "granted" by the People's Liberation Army. You went to manage it.'? Is this a reference I'm not getting?
--DollarStoreBa'alconverse
01:42, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
It is likely a random keyboard-smash done when the computer is in Chinese Input Mode. The initial letters spell gwhghwfjfj'cie'nqngliof?, which is likely a result of keyboard-smash done by a human on a QWERTY keyboard. ExplainEuge.ca (talk) 08:47, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
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