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I’ve Lost My Name

I am sad beyond words. Look at my FB status…it says that I am heartbroken. Oh, don’t worry, friends. Nobody broke my heart….no man (or woman) is capable of doing such harm to my consistently broken heart now. For some reason, someone decided that something is of value to him or her and it belongs solely to me. I am going to fight this one out. It’s my name for heaven’s sake! I lost my domain name www.marshamaung.com. I don’t know what the domain name would mean to the person who snatched it from under my nose! I mean, what are the chances of this person having the same exact name as me? I’ve promoted this name so much in the past that I have to fight to get it back now. The blame? Godaddy. I’ve been their loyal customer for the longest time and I can’t believe they did not do enough to warn me that the domain name has expired. I’ve tried to change my email address on their records before and it didn’t work. I registered my creativejooz.com email with them. I don’t own the domain name any longer, hence, I cannot receive notifications from that email. And I’ve tried to change the email in their records for the longest time and have failed. They probably tried to notify me using that email. And I was not notified. For your information, I don’t make it a point to log into my godaddy account all the time for no apparent reason, unless I wanted to purchase a new domain name, upgrade something or pay for hosting. Other than that, I don’t log into godaddy and I don’t make it a point to check the expiry dates of the domain names that I have under my account. So, now I’ve lost my own domain name and I will fight it out with this person to get it back. I know it’s my fault (not intentionally, but it still is) but I just have to get it back. I’ve spent too many years shedding blood, tears and sweat promoting the domain name and it just doesn’t make sense for me to let it go. And anyway, it IS my name.
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