What happened to Harlequin?
Dima Zinoviev
A little bit off topic: does anyone know what happened to Harlequin?
My name server says: "www.harleqin.com: Non-existent host/domain",
and the Internic record (last updated on 30-Mar-97) says "Domain
Status: On Hold". Did they go bancrupt, or is it a 1-april joke?
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Dima Zinoviev
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knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccl. 1:18
George Smith
dmi...@pavel.physics.sunysb.edu (Dima Zinoviev) writes:
>A little bit off topic: does anyone know what happened to Harlequin?
>My name server says: "www.harleqin.com: Non-existent host/domain",
try "http://www.harlequin.com/"
K Efstathiou
Eric M. Kidd wrote:
>
> In article <53afni2...@pavel.physics.sunysb.edu>,
> dmi...@pavel.physics.sunysb.edu (Dima Zinoviev) wrote:
>
> > A little bit off topic: does anyone know what happened to Harlequin?
> > My name server says: "www.harleqin.com: Non-existent host/domain",
> > Status: On Hold". Did they go bancrupt, or is it a 1-april joke?
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
I was trying http://www.harlequin.com/ around the same date as
Dim Zivoniev and my DNS server could not resolve the name (actually
I tried 2 totally unrelated DNS servers). It looks like there was
a problem with Harlequin back then.
The obvious solution "Try www.harlequin.com" is too obvious
for a person that even checked the Internic records.
I guess he mistyped 'www.harleqin.com' in his message and not
when trying to access the site with his browser. After all the
title of his message was "What happened to Harlequin" and not
"What happened to Harleqin". But then I could be wrong.
Cheers,
K. Efstathiou
Eric M. Kidd
Stanley Knutson
On 10 Apr 1997 16:38:24 GMT, gsm...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (George Smith)
wrote:
>dmi...@pavel.physics.sunysb.edu (Dima Zinoviev) writes:
>
>>A little bit off topic: does anyone know what happened to Harlequin?
>>My name server says: "www.harleqin.com: Non-existent host/domain",
>
> try "http://www.harlequin.com/"
>
>>and the Internic record (last updated on 30-Mar-97) says "Domain
>>Status: On Hold". Did they go bancrupt, or is it a 1-april joke?
>>
>>--
>>Dima Zinoviev
>>
>>For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
>>knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccl. 1:18
They probably forget to pay their Internic bill.
Internic only bills by email.. This is hard for a lot of companies to
deal with, since the bills to the *technical* contact, not a billing
contact.
Henry Baker
> They probably forget to pay their Internic bill.
>
> Internic only bills by email.. This is hard for a lot of companies to
> deal with, since the bills to the *technical* contact, not a billing
> contact.
This looks like it might lead to an interesting circularity. They cut
off your domain, so that any emailed bills can't be delivered and then
bounce. Hmmmmm....
Cyber Surfer
With a mighty <hbaker-1204...@10.0.2.1>,
hba...@netcom.com uttered these wise words...
> This looks like it might lead to an interesting circularity. They cut
> off your domain, so that any emailed bills can't be delivered and then
> bounce. Hmmmmm....
From what I hear, this is not a unique case. It's certainly a curious
way to run a business. It _is_ a business, isn't it? Hmm. If they were
anyone else, they might not last long. Well, we can hope! ;-)
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