WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:51:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 auxclass on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-956791 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:54:42 +0000 auxclass 956791@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is NO WAY to get to the base blog - the whatever.wordpress.com - so even if I was a visitor that wanted to send the blogger a message - maybe there is a contact form or the comments are on moderated I can't do that since there is no way to get to the base blog -

How do I contact the owner if I can't get to the base blog? Maybe phone them if the person is a personal friend?? Maybe do whois and send a message to the owner of record?

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-956763 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:32:14 +0000 justjennifer 956763@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @jenia- Sounds like a Catch-22. The overlay appears when the domain has already expired.

Here's what's written on the overlay,

Oh no! This domain expired XX days ago! Please contact the owner of this website and ask them to renew the domain. Don't worry, you'll still be able to view the site at this web address: insertnamehere.wordpress.com.

Perhaps if the "alternative working URL" is turned into a clickable link then it might be able to get around it.

]]> jenia on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-956740 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:15:36 +0000 jenia 956740@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @justjennifer and others: to follow up on this, the Dismiss option is only shown before the domain expires. If the domain has already expired, the point of the overlay is to highlight the fact that the domain is no longer valid, hence no dismiss option. The expiration message also provides an alternative working URL.

This is the intended behavior, please let me know if you see something that is different from what's described above.

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-954143 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:13:13 +0000 justjennifer 954143@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for looking at it. :)

]]> jenia on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-954140 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:11:32 +0000 jenia 954140@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @justjennifer, @auxclass: right, I did not test that "far", it was enough of a confirmation already :)

]]> auxclass on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-954137 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:08:49 +0000 auxclass 954137@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Try also Firefox when logged in also

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-954131 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:52:51 +0000 justjennifer 954131@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I was able to reproduce: the "Dismiss" link is not visible in Firefox or Chrome when I'm logged out.

@jenia, it's not visible in Chrome20 when logged in either. :)

]]> jenia on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-954124 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:46:25 +0000 jenia 954124@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @auxclass: thanks for the report and the example. I was able to reproduce: the "Dismiss" link is not visible in Firefox or Chrome when I'm logged out. We are looking into this.

]]> auxclass on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-951594 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:48:51 +0000 auxclass 951594@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry James - look all around the overlay - no way to close it - looked all over the screen - moused all over the screen and no way I could see to close the screen - and that also included to try and go to the base blog - so access to the blog is killed

http://khalilmuhammad.com/

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-950259 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:53:07 +0000 justjennifer 950259@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OT// Oh nice! Seems we just got a very useful "return to top of page" link in the Admin Bar.

]]> auxclass on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-950257 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:51:22 +0000 auxclass 950257@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Morning Jennifer

the overlay is a good idea - it just seems to me the how to get past that screen seems to require a handshake that nobody taught me

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-950255 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:49:27 +0000 justjennifer 950255@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ~~@auxclass

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-950251 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:43:31 +0000 justjennifer 950251@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Maybe it's a screen resolution thing, because no x was visible at the time I first saw it. I prodded all the corners, hit escape, to no avail.

Anyway, seems to be a moot point since any expired domain now gets the Chrome message instead Oops! Google Chrome could not find expireddomain.com

]]> auxclass on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-950250 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:42:07 +0000 auxclass 950250@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How about making the overlay smaller and leave the graphic in the center but a smaller graphic would put the invisible close or whatever it is down where it is more likely to be seen - not hidden up in the corner ( I assume there is really a close button but I have not seen it )

]]> macmanx on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-950245 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:37:22 +0000 macmanx 950245@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's definitely been there since we launched it. If you see one without it again, please let me know.

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-949407 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:22:49 +0000 justjennifer 949407@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If so, it must be new. :)

Regardless, at the moment, I'm not even encountering the overlay.

]]> macmanx on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-949090 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:31:08 +0000 macmanx 949090@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In the top-right corner of the notice, there is a "x Dismiss" link.

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-948380 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:50:04 +0000 justjennifer 948380@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Nope! This is still a problem. No visible way to get past the overlay to
"Please contact the owner of this website and ask them to renew the domain. Don't worry, you'll still be able to view the site at this web address: insertnamehere.wordpress.com"

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-943713 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:51:00 +0000 justjennifer 943713@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I did notice this morning (after I posted of course) that on a couple of sites that I visited earlier, the overlay was gone , , so maybe it disappears on a second visit? The sites were displaying on their wordpress.com address.

]]> auxclass on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-943708 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:42:14 +0000 auxclass 943708@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Another not ready for prime time feature when the staff is off on a retreat - too bad they did not test it - once the box is made to go away they will need to figure out how to fix the Primary displayed domain on a temporary basis also -

]]> justjennifer on "Getting Past the Expired Domain Overlay Notice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-past-the-expired-domain-overlay-notice#post-943706 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:36:04 +0000 justjennifer 943706@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm opening a separate thread about the problem I noted here http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trouble-renewing-domain?replies=13#post-942393 so that it doesn't get buried in the avalanche of current users looking for help with renewing their expired domain.

When one visits a site whose custom domain name has expired and encounters the very cool "Oh no! The domain XXXX.com expired XX days ago" overlay, there's a notice to contact the site owner to advise them and you can visit the site at its underlying wordpress.com address.

Trouble is, how does one get past the overlay? I have found no way to do so. There's no "x" to close the thing and hitting Esc on my PC/Chrome20 does nothing.

Thanks for any insight.

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