Greatnowhere domain expire?
Wayne Garmil
go to the website, I found a domain stealer parking page. Does anyone
know if GreatNoWhere's domain expired? I know before it tried to
move, did it actually move this time? The alternate path,
greatnowhere.no-ip.org, is not working for me either (I get a
different domain stealer parking page there).
Does anyone have any information? Did I miss an announcement
somewhere?
Wayne
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finked on everyone with an account on that server. Now no one nowhere,
nohow has an accout now.
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VanguardLH
According to a WhoIs on that domain, its registration shows:
Expires on: 09-Jun-10
A DNS lookup on www.greatnowhere.com returns 208.69.36.132. Yet a
reverse DNS lookup on 208.69.36.132 fails. So while the domain name is
still registered for another 7 months, there doesn't seem to be a DNS
record for it (i.e., the name is defined but no pointer to a host for
it).
Right now, I'm using OpenDNS as my DNS provider. They have the
"feature" of redirecting to their search page when a DNS lookup fails.
So what I see is OpenDNS's redirection page. My ISP does the same thing
(but you can elect to opt out). You sure your ISP isn't providing a
redirection "help" page on failed DNS lookups so that is the squatter
page that you see?
When a do an nslooup on reader.greatnowhere.com, I get:
>nslookup reader.greatnowhere.com
...
Name: greatnowhere.no-ip.org
Address: 69.65.19.125
Aliases: reader.greatnowhere.com
Oh oh. That means the DNS lookup is going to NO-IP's nameserver to see
what is the IP address for that IP name. No-IP.org is an IP redirection
service often employed by users that have dynamic IP addresses but want
an constant IP name to point at their host. They don't want to use
whatever is their currently dynamically assigned IP address because it
changes and users don't like to use numbers for hosts. No-IP.org and
DynDNS.com permit you to have an IP name for your host and their service
knows what is the current IP address of that host (by using their IP
updater client or an IP update function in your router to update the IP
address record in your account with them). That a dynamic IP address is
involved makes it appear this person was operating the NNTP server on
their home computer and they didn't get a static IP address for it.
Since the redirection goes through No-IP.org to find that user's host,
it could be that the user hasn't updated their No-IP account's record to
reflect their current IP address. Since No-IP.org doesn't know the
currently correct IP address for the host, it can't give it to you (or
it's giving out an old but incorrect IP address and that host isn't
running an NNTP server).
GoDaddy's registrant data on that domain is:
Zeltins, Peteris pe...@greatnowhere.com
Runci
Ikskile LV5052
Latvia
3719203986
Yeah, good luck trying to contact that guy. The e-mail address will be
useless because you can't reach his mail server to delivery your e-mail
because you can't get to whatever is his current IP address through
No-IP.org's redirection service. That he paid until June 2010 for his
domain *registration* doesn't mean he actually has a reachable host on
which he is running a server. Could be its down. Could be he needs to
update his account No-IP.org. Could be its just gone as happens to a
lot of these personally-ran NNTP servers. Since the domain owner didn't
provide a contact that is separate of his domain, he hasn't provide any
contact info you can use when his domain doesn't physically exist or
there is a problem reaching it.
Just sayin'
secrets.com>
Robb <--ro...@shared-secrets.com> wrote:
>
> VanguardLH wrote:
>
> >Name: greatnowhere.no-ip.org
> >Address: 69.65.19.125
> >Aliases: reader.greatnowhere.com
>
>
> Reply from 195.2.100.100: time=215ms
>
> Pinging news.greatnowhere.com 195.2.100.71
> Reply from 195.2.100.71: time=217ms
>
> Pinging (reader)greatnowhere.no-ip.org 69.65.19.125
> Timed out.
>
> Telnet fails to connect with any of those, as you say it's
> not expired, but it's dark ATM.
telnet mail.greatnowhere.com 25
220 mail2.fintrading.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
250 mail2.fintrading.com
quit
221 Closing connection. Good bye.
One could try emailing him.