Site didn’t exist for a few hours this morning.  Reason: I didn’t renew my domain.

Except I did.

Except, well, I didn’t.

The final step in the process of making a payment to my registrar is clicking on a button that launches a popup that allows me to do some authentication with my credit card company.  This is presumably for my own protection—or at least for theirs—but it happens after all the normal steps I associate with e-commerce, and there are no blinking red lights to remind me that I have to do another thing.  Which is frustrating when it’s a very important thing, too.

Still, I’m happy that everything is back so quickly.  I was worried about a couple days of downtime, but everything seems to be back to normal with maybe an hour of when I first realized I had a problem.  Whew!