cbc77 - 8:11 pm on Jul 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

When some traditionally popular search engines (Lycos and Hotbot, for example) went from accepting URL submissions for free to charging for submission, it appeared that completely new domains (bought, registered and published after the switch to a 100% pay for inclusion method) HAD to pay to be included in those search engines while the sites that were already being spidered by these engines remained in their list of results.

However, I am unsure what exactly a spider remembers to crawl - a domain name or its actual IP server location. Basically, my problem is this - my site has existed for many years at a given domain and that domain does come up when relevant searches are conducted in Lycos, Hotbot, etc. However, after a recent redesign, I switched the hosting and moved the site to a new server. Will Lycos, Hotbot, and other search engines continue to crawl it as they do all the other domains that were in their list before they began to crawl or will it be unable to find the site, thus forcing me to pay for submission?