Originally Posted by kane

It wasn't Google. It was me not reading something correctly and Netsol not working with me.

To make a long story short, I had registered a bunch of domains with NetSol. Back in the day, they were really the only option. I was trying to update my email info on my account and needed to send them some info. I decided I would do it when I got back from vacation. Well, my misreading things led to a few of my domains expiring while I was on vacation. NetSol didn't give me any kind of grace period so as soon as they expired someone else bought them. There were 5 domains in all. Four of them had little or nothing on them and were no big deal. One of them had a ton of stuff. I contacted the person that bought the domain hoping they would sell it back to me. They wouldn't. I told them the traffic was going to die quick as sites blacklisted it (all he had was a redirect on it pointing to a page of banners). He still refused. He ended up letting it expire after a year, but by then the domain was blacklisted on most TGP's and link sites so it wasn't worth trying to rebuild on it.

So, basically, about 6 or 7 years worth of work just vanished overnight. I started rebuilding it all from scratch.