If you tried to visit this site on Tuesday, you likely got an error message or a strange unrelated screen.

I discovered the problem when I tried up upload a new post. I couldn’t get through.

I contacted my hosting service, and after checking it out, they advised me that the DNS pointers had been changed and it was no longer connected to them. My first reaction–I thought I had been hacked, less than a day after posting about a certain presidential campaign.

Well, I did a bit more diagnosing of the problem, and it turned out to be much less dramatic than an outside hacker. Embarrassingly so, truth be told! Apparently I had not updated the credit card on file with the domain registrar and my domain had expired yesterday. The charge was rejected. Then, basically, the domain was repossessed for non-payment.

While embarrassing, that was good news. Much easier to fix than a full scale hack job.

So now, several hours later, it’s back online.

My apologies to all. Hopefully I’ll get that new post up in the morning.