Did my forum get deleted?

by bob8972 July 26th 2012, 8:20 pm

Hello, I made a forum using forumotion years ago, and I had paid for a custom domain for 2 years. My forum was made to discuss video games, just a basic forum based on gaming. It had hundreds of registered users, and over 70,000+ posts made on it. However, it kind of died in late 2011, but I wanted to still keep it up for all the work and time I've spent on it. Recently, my custom domain expired because I decided I wasn't going to pay for it anymore. When I go on my custom domain, it just brings me to this.

So I figured that if I go on my old domain, then it would bring up the old site...but it doesn't. Just the GoDaddy image above. I want to know is that, was my entire forum deleted? Will I never be able to access it again? It has over 4 years worth of content on it, and I would hate to see it all be gone forever.

Someone please help me, I would like to still see how my forum is doing. I haven't been on it in a few months, and I think the custom domain thing expired last month.

by JadeMehBoi July 26th 2012, 8:31 pm

Man as long as you have the forumotion domain given to your forum you can get to it again man.

by bob8972 July 26th 2012, 8:34 pm

I've tried accessing my old domain which I originally had when I first made my forum back in February 2008, but I can't access it. I just get a GoDaddy message.

by JadeMehBoi July 26th 2012, 8:52 pm

Then I think the ulities will help then.

by bob8972 July 26th 2012, 8:58 pm

You mean on the admin panel? I kind of lost access to that. I don't know if it's still there or not.

by JadeMehBoi July 26th 2012, 9:00 pm

No. There is something on forumortion called ulities. You can back up your forum and all it's information

by bob8972 July 26th 2012, 9:08 pm

Can you link me to this please? I haven't used Forumotion in a while, lol.

by DK July 26th 2012, 9:22 pm

Why did you buy a domain from GoDaddy and not Forumotion?
GoDaddy is known to cause problems to people, just like this.

by JadeMehBoi July 26th 2012, 9:28 pm

Use register because on my old domain they didn't give me these problems. Also people find forumotion to be too expensive (Some).

by bob8972 July 26th 2012, 9:38 pm

iLeo wrote:Why did you buy a domain from GoDaddy and not Forumotion?
GoDaddy is known to cause problems to people, just like this.

I didn't register with GoDaddy. 2 years ago on the admin panel, it gave me an option to have a custom domain, so I bought one. I thought it was through Forumotion or something.

by bob8972 July 26th 2012, 9:43 pm

Oh cool, I went on ulilites, and it showed me the current domain for my forum. It used to end with "yahoo board", but now it ends with "free-message-board.com". I don't know why. Everything is there like before though.

Thanks for your help!

A moderator can lock this thread now.

by **SLGray** July 26th 2012, 11:51 pm

Please don't double/triple post. Your post need to be separated by 24 hours before bumping, replying or adding more information. Please use the edit button instead!

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