This morning we decided to move the boat over to an anchorage just outside Panama City called Las Playas. Its not much of an anchorage, but we have to pick up numerous boat parts that were ordered in our absence and taking everything aboard the ferry to Taboga Island wasn't practical. This meant we had to cross the shipping channel directly outside the panama canal. Wanuskewin had done this a couple of times while we were gone, but it was something to be dodging all the ships at anchor and underway on the short 1 hour trip across. The anchorage is a very rolly one because it is right next to the shipping lanes so the wake from every ship going through the canal rolls us around day and night. Bleck. We will be here just long enough to conduct our business and go back to Taboga Island.
At some point within the past few days, one of our websites (www.limerickproperties.com) stopped working. We have five websites - and this was the only one not working. Melissa did a trace and discovered that the main record in the .COM servers had been removed - so to the internet it was as if the domain didn't even exist. Turns out that at some point a law was enacted that requires domain registrars to verify your email contact information. So they send an email to you with a verification link - similar to when you set up a new account with anyone who wants to do an email account verification cycle. Problem is that when NameZero (our original domain registrar) sold out to Dotster (our current domain registrar) they defaulted the contact email to contact@limerickproperties.com - or similar for all our websites. This is an invalid email address - hence the verification email went into the ether. At some point Dave had fixed the contact email on all the other websites. But for whatever reason the limerickproperties one got missed. Two hours later everything was operational again...