This week, while checking out Just-Precious’ stats, I noticed a large number of searches related to Precious Personalities. And it reminded me that I haven’t blogged about good ol’ PP in a while. Because. Its not there. Go ahead. Click on it.
Owning and managing a boutique was a dream for years. And when Big was about a year old I decided to make it happen. It was wonderful. I loved shopping for others. I loved finding new products that weren’t at the Big Box stores. I loved making people’s shopping experiences pleasurable. And I still do. And will always love to do that.
So why? Where did it go? Well… When you purchase a domain (that’s a URL), you purchase it through a site host. Which I did. Over 5 years ago. Sadly, my computer crashed about 2 years later with all of my records for Precious Personalities. And when it was time to renew the domain every password in my book wouldn’t get me in to my site host. Strangely, they didn’t offer a feature to send or reset my password. Infact, when I called and spoke to several people I was informed that while they still did host the domain, they had some sort of a problem on their end and couldn’t access my account. So whether or not my password was missing suddenly didn’t matter. There was absolutely no flipping way they could access it. And neither could I. Rather irresponsible, right?
What’s more, because they had ownership of the domain, even though they couldn’t access my account, they could still send me e-mails stating that I needed to renew and could “park” my domain.
Now, parking my domain is very kind of them. Really. No one can just grab it because it belongs to them. Even though the name has been copywritten by me, the domain belongs to the site host. And if anyone (ie me) wants to own PreciousPersonalities.com you have to go through the site host that I went with 5+ years ago. 5+ years ago, this site host was consistently rated in the top 10 hosts. Ironically, now its difficult to find them on a site hosting listing. Hmmm… wonder why?
So, here’s the deal with Precious Personalities. I’m holding out. I’m waiting for the site host to unpark my copywritten title so that I can scoop it up through a (currently) more reputable host. Like JustHost.com (who hosts Just-Precious.com). Because I am simply not crazy enough to purchase my domain hosting through a company so disorganized that they can’t seem to access my account and do anything.
And then. And then I’ll have to rebuild Precious Personalities. From. Scratch. Which isn’t a job that takes a few minutes. No. Hours.
So, please. Bare with me. I have one outstanding order and the orderer knows that it won’t be delivered until February. Per his request. Otherwise, I’m not taking orders. I’m not filling orders. I don’t have a store or an e-mail address. And I’m sorry. Because I do love shopping for my customers and finding amazing new products to stock my shelves. Products you won’t find anywhere in the Big Box stores.
I do plan for Precious Personalities to be back. Eventually.
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