What happened to Gawker
 

This is hard to believe http://www.gawker.com Gawker domain expired. According to Google Gawker, part of the
largest weblog media group, reaches over 600,000 media junkies each month and is one of the most successful weblogs online.

Apparently it was a glitch with a credit card according to this story in http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5407444.html