Star-Bulletin problems

[Glen Miyashiro]

Huh. All my Star-Bulletin URLs are now sending me to a GoDaddy.com page. Is it just me? Or did somebody forget to pay their ISP?

[scrivener]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

Looks okay now.

[pzarquon]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

Looks like they let their domain expire. Just renewed through March 4, 2010. Whew! You'd think they'd register a decade out, at least. (He said, nervously checking his domain portfolio...)

[lavagal]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

I was bummed that the freebie Star-Bulletins didn't make it to Hawaii Kai 24HF this morning; it's part of my routine. I'm waiting to get a call to subscribe; despite getting a freebie at 24HF, I'd like to support it as a subscriber, retaining the 2-newspaper town POV.

[zztype]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

They forgot to renew their domain registration.

Site was originally registered March 3, 1996.

Domain registration expired March 4, 2008.

It was online very early this morning, but by about 5:15 a.m., viewers were getting the Godaddy.com "parked" page. The domain registration had expired.

All email to starbulletin.com users was bouncing.

I did a quick whois on starbulletin.com and found it had expired.

I made some phone calls. (Misdialed one number and woke up some poor, confused guy. Sorry, brah.) Left some messages. Sent emails to personal accounts of responsible parties.

Got a reply later this morning that the site was back, thanks.


Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: STARBULLETIN.COM
Created on: 03-Mar-96
Expires on: 04-Mar-08
Last Updated on:

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration STARBULLETIN.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2599

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration STARBULLETIN.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2599

Domain servers in listed order:
NS11.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS12.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

[Kalihiboy]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

GO DADDY was around back in 1996? I've had some things parked with them for quite awhile.

Aj

[lavagal]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

Well, OBVIOUSLY, the Star-Bulletin should be headlining with "BLAINE ROCKS." Way to go, Blaine. That's what ethics is all about. He had the power to do the right thing and he did it.

[Leo Lakio]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

I made some phone calls.

He had the power to do the right thing and he did it.

Must be in his blood. Nice on you, Blaine. Not sure I would act so generously towards my former employers (but then, you chose to move on, right? That wasn't an option for me.)

[Leo Lakio]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

GO DADDY was around back in 1996? I've had some things parked with them for quite awhile.

Yeah, I thought they weren't in existence until '97?

[zztype]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

The site was originally registered with Network Solutions in 1996. They moved registration to Godaddy.com some time around 2005, I think.

[buzz1941]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

I registered honoluluadvertiser.com in my own name back in the late '90s and it took them more than a year to notice....

[lavagal]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

I registered honoluluadvertiser.com in my own name back in the late '90s and it took them more than a year to notice....

I was wondering if anyone had done anything like that!

[Kalihiboy]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

Yeah, I had thought Go DADDY has only been around maybe 5 years.

People at one time bought celebrity name's hoping to cash in on it all when the celebrity wanted to open up a website or control the content of the website.

Aj

[pzarquon]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

I registered honoluluadvertiser.com in my own name back in the late '90s and it took them more than a year to notice....

Cute. Suspect it didn't take much to get it back, though. Meanwhile I've been sitting on HawaiiNews.com forever. If your major news domain name disappears, it can be yours for only, oh, say $30,000!

[buzz1941]

Re: Star-Bulletin problems

I sold it to them for $100 — after making sure they had already spent thousands hiring lawyers to assault me in court. If they had just asked, it would have been free, but no, the suits don't think that way.