There's a lot of domain hijacking going on these days... the most recent of which happened to our dear friend Julie...

If you're receiving this mail, it's because you either do link to
digitalurbanite.com or Google says you did. :)

In case you're unaware of the situation regarding my domain and my blog,
here's what's going on.

My domain expired in late May, and a last-minute domain transfer attempt
failed. My domain was placed on administrative hold. My options were to pay
$35 US to re-register it with a registrar I wanted to leave, or to pay $70
US to administrate it myself. Or, thought I, just let it expire entirely
and then reregister it from my new registrar.

Don't. Ever. Do. This.

A cybersquatter who's on one of those "expiring domains" mailing lists

snagged my domain in the 12 hours it expired, while I was asleep and then
travelling to work this morning.

He is refusing to even sell me my domain back.

So, I'm registering digitalurbanite.NET.

The domain will be live in the next couple of days and I ask you to please,
please change your link from .com to .net as soon as you can. The Google
Spider will be going through sites shortly and we should be able to get him
pretty much out of the listings if you make the change quickly enough. :)

Thanks for your co-operation, and I'm sorry for the intrusion into your inbox.

Sincerely,

Julie :)
julie@juliemartin.org
(formerly julie@digitalurbanite.com, soon to be julie@digitalurbanite.net)