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     7 years ago (edited) 

    Hello Kati, one more time for good measure: I've known you since the early start of the Visionary Art Network in 2009 on our private Ning Platform. The elimination of Flash has thrown me into a tailspin, having to fix every artist page on our public site VAG. Since i am doing that, I also switched to a more modern look for the site. Long story short, this will keep me busy for a very long time, considering there are 500+ artists, plus a ton of support and feature pages. There is also other embedded stuff on it that runs on Flash, and services such as YouTube and Vimeo eliminated Flash as well - and most OS will not support it after 2019 anyway. So these are things I need to fix also.

    I am currently fixing at random, so since you joined here I checked your public page and updated it: https://www.vagallery.com/kati-astraeir.html One of the things I had to change (i.e. delete) was the website you listed: http://katiastraeir.com - so I assume you just let the domain lapse. Bad idea, as you can see when you follow the link. My take on this: if you have a domain, NEVER give it up! Someone else can take it over. If you don't want it anymore, park it. Or else if you don't want to maintain it anymore, then just publish a splash page on it with a re-direct to the site you primarily use now, which is Etsy. But you are lucky that it was not a porn site that took over your domain, something that happened to a Austrian artist I know (there is nothing she can do about that - her name will from that moment on be on Google Search as a porn site!) Yours is a Chinese hair improvement site. Seems it is mostly Chinese that jump on abandoned domains. Another thing: a domain name can be valuable, and you could actually sell it!

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