Early last month I received some mail from Verisign [1] that my domain, conman.org was about to expire.
Yea. It expires in October, you idiots [2].
I've been meaning to transfer my domain over to Dotster [3], where the rest of my domains are registered. About two weeks ago I figure it was time. So I put in the transfer request and the credit card information to pay for it.
Only a day or so later, I lost the credit card. I cancelled that one and had a new one issued, but it took quite a while before I got the new card (partly because the mailing address is separate from where I currently live and that mail box is checked about once a week). So during that time, Dotster kept attempting to charge the cancelled card.
Every single day.
Gee, you'd think that after three or so attempts they would just cancel the transfer but I guess not.
But once I cleared up that snafu (Situation Normal All Fouled Up) the transfer completed without problem and I no longer have to deal with Verisign or Network Pollutions [4].
Woo hoo!