All you need to do is log into your account and click “Take Online” next to your network’s name within the “Manage” tab – that’s all. Just by doing so, you’ll avoid the inactive account ban.

A second thought for you: these bannings are most likely going to free up hundreds of “socialsquatted” Ning domains – re-visit the site in December and see if the one you wanted in the past is now available! I know I’ll be doing this on the 18th. We could only hope that other sites like MySpace, Twitter and Youtube had the brains to clean out inactive socialsquatted accounts like this.

If you have no idea what Ning.com is, it’s basically a free online social networking community builder. It’s free out-of-the-box, and you’ll get a subdomain off of their account (i.e., mycommunity.ning.com). Ning has recently gotten a lot of e-cred as they’ve exploded into a very high-profile social networking service. As a paying member, you can even buy hosting and point a domain name to the account. Companies from Saturn, to Martha Stewart and Hersheys have embraced Ning as the framework for their social networks.

Give it a try and see what you think!