Hosting expired and caught me out!

what should I do?

[giggle]

I posted recently about Google indexing my .ASP pages and that our hits had shot up. Our page rank went from PR4 to PR6. Everything was rosey with the world.

I purchased the domain two years ago when the project was just an idea, now we are making a decent income from it. All of a sudden yesterday it disappeared!

It turns our the the domain registration had expired and, I guess, renewal emails went to an old email address. My fault.

Now a dilema.

(i) If I re-purchase the domain with our current internet suppliers the IP address will change - will Google forget about me?

(ii) If I re-purchase the domain with the original internet supplier will I get the same IP address and therefore the down time will [probably] go unnoticed by Google.

The domain name tag is currently 'DETAGGED' and I'm waiting for it to go to 'INTERNETENG' (it's a .co.uk site) before I can re-purchase it, which should be today. So it's decision time.

Please, please any direction from you knowledgable people out there would be gratefully appreciated.

Idiot.

[przero2]

I do not have any first hand experience with this. But if you get the domain back and the content is same, you should be fine even if the DNS or the IP has changed. Although sometimes, Google may take a month or two to recognize the DNS changes - at the end of this waiting you should comeback!. Ofcourse, this is assuming that all the links pointing to your domain still exists and everything else is the same except for the current downtime. A downtime is a downtime experienced by most at some point in time and should go largely unnoticed by Google especially if it can find your site in the next crawl and the external links still exists!. Good luck!!