oh noooo!

so i inadvertantly let my ownership of www.madeyedesigns.net expire. i should have renewed it last week when i got all of the reminder emails but i was busy and it just got lost in the shuffle. i thought it wouldn't be a big deal but when i checked tonight to make sure it was okay, i discovered that the name seems to have been bought by some kind of robot ad site. you can see it by just going to http://www.madeyedesigns.net.

while the site is still accessible at its actual url, http://www.brightandbeautiful.org/madeye (madeyedesigns.net was just a referrer url), i still obviously want my domain name back since it's on all my business cards etcetera, and also is the url that i actually give people and that is linked to by most websites that link to me, and all of that jazz. also, as i discovered last summer when i first wanted to buy the name, madeyedesigns.com is actually taken already. this means all of my visitors are going to be hitting this robot site AND that i don't have any better options for other names to buy, if this one can't be bought back.

basically, i need some advice! if this has happened to you or anyone you know, what did you do? what can i do? what would you suggest? i emailed the address that came up on the "why am i seeing this site?" link on the robot page, but haven't heard back yet. if they can't tell me anything or refuse to sell it back to me, what can be done? (i already checked on one of those sites where you can "place a bid" to buy a domain name from someone that has it, but the minimum bid had to be $200 and i just don't have that kind of money!)

i appreciate any help i can get. i know this is all my fault for letting it expire, but i want to fix it asap! i feel so clueless and ridiculous for letting this happen. argh.