I let dev.to expire after the first year. I thought I had extended it but the payment didn't go through and I didn't notice. So basically the site was down for a few hours while we scrambled to get in touch with the super-niche registrar who deals with .to domains.
I personally talked on the phone with some guy who basically manually restarted some server that got us back online sooner than if we'd waited for the daily process for how they do it.
I let dev.to expire after the first year. I thought I had extended it but the payment didn't go through and I didn't notice. So basically the site was down for a few hours while we scrambled to get in touch with the super-niche registrar who deals with .to domains.
I personally talked on the phone with some guy who basically manually restarted some server that got us back online sooner than if we'd waited for the daily process for how they do it.
That's crazy. I didn't realize .to was actually for the Island of Tonga. Glad you were able to get it back!