Billy Dennis is having some trouble with his site and wanted me to pass along this information:

You may or may not be noticing some sort of ad page on the front of Peoria Pundit. It should NOT be there. I’m in contact with my hosting company to find out what’s wrong, and fix it. I’m suspecting a domain renewal snafu, which is odd, since I haven’t been notified in any way, shape or form. I’d almost rather have my site highjacked.

Tell your readers this may not be resolved until tomorrow.

Thanks.

I was able to get his site, so thought he had it fixed, but I’ve heard from others that they’re still getting hotel ads or something instead of his site.

Good luck this morning on getting everything worked out, Billy!

UPDATE: Billy’s site should be back up within 24 hours. Here’s his latest note:

It turned out that my old domain registrar was bought out by these new guys, and they were sending renewal notices to an old, old old email address, even though I had long ago switched my contact info to an address I can still use. They were very apologetic and helpful. It took the young lady on the phone about five minutes to renew my domain over the phone with a credit card. It will take up to 24 hours for everyone’s ISPs to start pointing ” peoriapundit.com” back to MY site, rather than their ugly little place holder.

And I now see the wisdom in hiring young women to do tech support. I was going to unload a barrage on venom on whoever answered the phone, but I didn’t have the heart to make this squeeky-voiced teenager feel bad.

UPDATE 2: Billy’s site is back up now. Welcome back, Billy!