diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b8338d9..ac0d61e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Angular Utilities
 
+### No longer maintained
+(20/04/2017) - I am no longer actively maintaining this project. I no longer use AngularJS in my own projects and do not have the time to dedicate to maintiaining this project as well as my other active open source projects. Thank you for your understanding.
+
+---
+
 I am working on a large-scale AngularJS-based project and I'll be extracting
 any useful re-usable components that I make and putting them here.
 
@@ -33,4 +38,4 @@ This code is made available under the MIT license, so feel free to use any of th
 
 ## License
 
-MIT
\ No newline at end of file
+MIT
diff --git a/src/directives/disqus/README.md b/src/directives/disqus/README.md
index 7897599..e386a83 100644
--- a/src/directives/disqus/README.md
+++ b/src/directives/disqus/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Disqus Directive
 
+### No longer maintained
+(20/04/2017) - I am no longer actively maintaining this project. I no longer use AngularJS in my own projects and do not have the time to dedicate to maintiaining this project as well as my other active open source projects. Thank you for your understanding.
+
+---
+
+
 A directive to embed a Disqus comments widget on your AngularJS page.
 
 ## Prerequisites
diff --git a/src/directives/pagination/README.md b/src/directives/pagination/README.md
index 6791ebe..4fd209f 100644
--- a/src/directives/pagination/README.md
+++ b/src/directives/pagination/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Pagination Directive
 
+### No longer maintained
+(20/04/2017) - I am no longer actively maintaining this project. I no longer use AngularJS in my own projects and do not have the time to dedicate to maintiaining this project as well as my other active open source projects. Thank you for your understanding.
+
+---
+
 ## Another one?
 
 Yes, there are quite a few pagination solutions for Angular out there already, but what I wanted to do was make
@@ -165,7 +170,7 @@ The optional third argument `paginationId` is used when you need more than one i
 on setting up multiple instances.
 
 * **`current-page`** (optional) Specify a property on your controller's $scope that will be bound to the current
-page of the pagination. If this is not specified, the directive will automatically create a property named `__currentPage` and use
+page of the pagination. If this is not specified, the directive will automatically create a property named `__default__currentPage` and use
 that instead.
 
 * **`pagination-id`** (optional) Used to group together the dir-paginate directive with a corresponding dir-pagination-controls when you need more than
@@ -435,3 +440,7 @@ from their pagination directive.
 from the various contributors to this thread.
 
 * Massive credit is due to all the [contributors](https://github.com/michaelbromley/angularUtils/graphs/contributors) to this project - they have brought improvements that I would not have the time or insight to figure out myself.
+
+## License
+
+MIT
diff --git a/src/directives/pagination/dirPagination.js b/src/directives/pagination/dirPagination.js
index a1a7265..d5103ff 100644
--- a/src/directives/pagination/dirPagination.js
+++ b/src/directives/pagination/dirPagination.js
@@ -201,7 +201,9 @@
                 // Replace any non-alphanumeric characters which might confuse
                 // the $parse service and give unexpected results.
                 // See https://github.com/michaelbromley/angularUtils/issues/233
-                var defaultCurrentPage = (paginationId + '__currentPage').replace(/\W/g, '_');
+                // Adding the '_' as a prefix resolves an issue where paginationId might be have a digit as its first char
+                // See https://github.com/michaelbromley/angularUtils/issues/400
+                var defaultCurrentPage = '_' + (paginationId + '__currentPage').replace(/\W/g, '_');
                 scope[defaultCurrentPage] = 1;
                 currentPageGetter = $parse(defaultCurrentPage);
             }