The domain is restored and the 90€ max were 107.10€. Ok, we hadn’t talked about MwSt (VAT).
The story in short words:
I had the server at a small virtual hosting company in southern Germany, called Korypet. Excellent service for a reasonable price. No comparison to the big guys in the business, the server was nearly always performing very well and had enough room in his host to breathe.
Mr. Hovorka, the owner (and main worker) was very friendly, helpful and super fast in fixing stuff. Once I thought that I had to upgrade and instead of taking the money he took some time to tell me how to squeeze more out of the machine. No extra charge.
Well, he got very sick and the company collapsed around him. With Marcin’s help the missing server was replaced in no time. But I had also registered my domains with Korypet. They had promised to keep their service up until 2009, no renewals please, but fulfilling old contracts. I wanted to switch to a different registrar after my class trip and the grading hell I am just in.
Well, while I was on the class trip, Korypet must have collapsed fully. The domain was unknown to the root servers and up for deletion, my other domain had also vanished. Someone must have panicked and pulled all plugs. I don’t want to imagine what has happened there – nothing nice, I am sure.
I found out that key-systems.net was the registrar through which Korypet had registered my domains and contacted them.
No problems with my .de domain, but the .org was a different story. It had to be resurrected from the dead by the top registering body – not possible by automatic processes. So they would have to charge me these ominous 90€. Alternative: wait 30 days and re-register. This please, before someone other picks it up. I took the costly option.
On the other side a lot of positive stuff has happened. More in tomorrows show!
If you can set up the process I would be glad to contribute towards the cost of 107.10. After all the pleasure and instruction I have received from you, it is the least I can do.
Quite a story here. I am with Norman.
>If you can set up the process I would be glad to contribute
same for me. Count me in.
MTG has been really important for me, i learned so much and felt “in touch” with you, Rolf, and with all the other people. I know they’re watching the same effort Rolf puts in MTG every week.
I know DNS and domains troubles can get very annoying…
welcome back Rolf, and i hope well for the poor Mr. Hovorka… if you can, thank him for all of us.
Nice to see you back online. But please be sure that you redirect the http://www.meetthegimp.org – Address correctly, because the subdomain www. is not reachable from a browser.
It’s because www. has no ip adress
– and yes I think donations would be good idea as 90 Euros is not piece of cake.
I’ll think about a way to put a hat on the street. This is too much for pocket money.
I think the www problem can be solved with an entry at the nameserver. Even while I hate www. , I’ll check it out.
If you hate www.
leave it as it is 
hehe – it’s your website
I hate www and I am addicted to pageviews…..
I’ve said it before and I chime in with the others now: many of use appreciate your efforts – this site, the videos, you taking time to respond to comments and host competitions, etc. We would like to help – some have helped with comments, others videos – allow the rest of us to help financially : )
I’m with all of you, pals, to contribute to the 107.10!
Good thing you didn’t wait 30 days to try re-registering, it WOULD have gone to Snapnames or similar company, and then: AUCTION HORROR!