Well, guess who did something silly. I forgot to renew the old www.EyesOnTrauma.org website and a domain shark poached it from me. I tried offering £150 to buy it back but they ignored my offer. I decided to register an alternative domain name instead, and amazingly, the .com was still available. Silly domain sharked missed that opportunity!
With a bit of luck and help from the best web host I’ve ever had, I managed to restore a backup of my beloved lost website onto the new .com address.
So now this website exists at www.EyesOnTrauma.com 🙂
There was a period of a few months when I well and truly thought I’d lost my whole website. I was absolutely distraught. It felt quite traumatic. I was too scared to try and get it back from my host in case the answer was ‘no’. I finally plucked up the courage to ask and it was possible to recover it.
In the meantime, that sense of loss I felt for something I put a lot of time and love into, has inspired me to do more work with Eyes On Trauma now I have the second chance with getting the website back.
Having this time to step back and consider everything, I have also been inspired to update the website and launch a peer support group. You can find out more here. Lots more exciting things coming too!