User talk:Lettherebedarklight

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Fuck is that bad?

Is it normal that it will expire? What will happen? How often do websites get this close? tell me everything aaaaaa --FaviFake (talk) 15:01, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Drafting up a email to Davidy22 and Jeff right now regarding this issue. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 16:32, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

i hope some sort of auto renew is on this website's domain expires in august 00:49, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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!).

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.

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.

HTH, HAND! 172.69.224.74 05:31, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Hey could you give us a summary of your answer pls? I'm interested in this. --FaviFake (talk) 17:23, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

"Is it normal that it will expire?" Yes. Commercial domain registrations have expiry/renewel cycles. Length may depend on the registrar and the domain.

"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.

"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.)

"tell me everything aaaaaa" See above, for starters..? 172.68.186.141 20:59, 15 May 2025 (UTC)