Network solutions are utter bastards.  Don't ever register a domain name
with them if you can possibly help it.

I've been trying to transfer several domains including template-toolkit.org,
template-toolkit.com and andywardley.com away from netsol to a different 
registrar, but netsol have done there damnest to prevent me from doing that.

The domains expired a week or so ago and I mistakenly thought that once
that had happened, I could simply re-register them with my preferred 
registrar (gandi.net).  No chance!  Netsol keep the domains tied up in their
database for anything up to several months after the expiration date.  The 
only option for me was to re-register the domains with netsol so that I 
could again try to transfer them.

Unfortunately this all happened during a week when I was away from the 
computer and I wasn't able to attend to it.  However, Jeff Masud noticed
the problem and very kindly re-registered template-toolkit.com for me,
followed by Rob Casey who did the same for template-toolkit.org.

So thanks to them, the domains should be re-appearing some time Real Soon
Now.  Until then, the tt2.org domain still works as it should and I've 
rebuilt the web site (or rather, ttree rebuilt it for me :-) using tt2.org
as the base domain rather than template-toolkit.org, so most, if not all 
of the links should now work OK.

I've also re-registered andywardley.com, so emails to me at that domain 
should start working again soon.  In the mean time, my [EMAIL PROTECTED] email
address still works fine.

Thanks to Jeff and Rob for their generosity and apologies for any 
inconvenience caused by the outage.  Normal service will be resumed shortly.

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