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This blog entry is more of a knee-jerk reaction than anything, so try to be a bit understanding if I am not my usual "calm" self in it.
As it stands, it looks like we lost the csnation.net domain! Want to know why? Because over the course of a month, someone couldn't be bothered to spend the two fucking minutes it would take to renew it! Yep, over 30 full days since the time I alerted Tim to this. Tim passed along the information presumably to the person or persons that renew this stuff and... we waited.
We waited and waited. And I sent reminders and Tim said he knew, he passed along the info already, and we waited some more. And since domain registrars don't hold onto these things forever, it was gone. Someone else took it after the holding period was over. Just like that, the domain I started out over 12 years ago on was gone.
Because someone couldn't take the two minutes to renew the domain.
You know, for as much as I bitched about being hosted with our old owners, at least there I had a proper domain email most of the time that didn't fuck me over when I tried to contact publishers and developers about coverage for their upcoming games. Fun fact, using a free email to contact big companies and asking for coverage material either gets you ignored by their "spam" filters or given a form response. Turns out, they probably don't believe you're who you say you are! Surely this person wouldn't be using a Gmail account if he really runs this website. Screw him! Oh and with the old hosts the domains never expired to the point of COMPLETELY LOSING THEM.
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Looks Like We Lost the csnation.net Domain
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I can't imagine the kind of headache and stress you're going through, but for what it's worth, it's not much to worry about to begin with. Zips, you and Rizzuh worked damn hard without any help to build and manage a community consisting of wonderful people from both Total Battlefield Network and CS-Nation. As I'm from the Counter-Strike community, I got to enjoy seeing updates and changelogs, reading your newsbits, listening to Counter-Strike Radio mirroring Rizzuh's news, checking out the skin of the day, reading Arctic Joe's Q&A mailbag (and getting mine answered because nobody else noticed his comeback, so he retired again), cocking an eyebrow when seeing another Counter-Crap (I think that's what it was called?), and laughing at Wrestlin' Nation (speaking of which, did we celebrate April Fools on this site this year?).
All of that is more or less gone now, and I'm still here... And I'm not particularly bothered either. I still play Counter-Strike at LAN cafes (the two that haven't shut down yet), so it's not that I stopped caring about Counter-Strike. It's the people here and the quality of reporting on news that I get here that hasn't changed. The legacy of CS-Nation has only been strengthened with the Total Battlefield Network community, and creating Total Gaming Network (I think that's how it worked? I have no clue). Yours and Rizzuh's work isn't gone if the domain really is lost. The years and years of CS-Nation's legacy comes from the people who are still here.
Losing the domain really just means I have a longer URL to type in. Heck, if I'm really lazy I'll bookmark the main page. Big deal... Any newcomers will see you as Total Gaming Network anyways so they probably wouldn't type in www.csnation.net as a URL. You can still put in a CS-Nation logo on the website or whatever. Either way, the people I enjoy talking to and getting knowledge crammed into my ignorant mind are still here, so this doesn't affect my overall enjoyment of the site and YouTube channel. Besides, csnation.com seems available, albeit presumably for a super high price.
As for domain E-mail, are you currently using vanilla GMail or did you end up subscribing to Google Apps?