pop-forum Has anyone saved any files from www.poplog.org
Aaron Sloman
site which says at the top 'This domain is expired'
I guess the recession has something to do with this. Did anyone save
copies of any of the pop-11 code that was made available on that
site?
If so I would be willing to put it on the Birmingham poplog site.
Aarono
Jonathan L Cunningham
<A.Sl...@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>The www.poplog.org domain has now been taken over by an advertising
>site which says at the top 'This domain is expired'
According to the WHOIS database, it expired on 19th June. IIRC, there is
a 90 day "grace period" (it might be 30 days) in which the owner (Steve
Leach) can renew it at a penalty[*]. After that, it probably becomes
available again... might be worth a tenner a year.
I've (deliberately) let a couple of domain registrations expire, and
they seem to never go away... it's easy for the domain registration
company to keep them on their nameservers but to point them at an
advertising page. It looks like this Poplog one is with a domain
registration company called "Domain Discover".
I also checked poplog.com, which expires in February next year, and is
registered to a Scott Hunter in the USA. I'm guessing it was one of
those speculative registrations (by a "domain squatter") in the hope of
extorting money at a future date, since it doesn't seem even to have a
properly configured nameserver. Might be worth keeping an eye on it next
February. If you're not quick, someone else might decide to "squat" on
it though... I've had that happen with a domain I wanted. (Bought by
someone in Russia after someone in Hong Kong let it expire...)
What I don't understand is why anyone would be crazy enough to buy a
domain off these people at a profit to them big enough to justify the
expense of regitering lots of domains that aren't bought... it's easy
enough to register a slight variant, or to think up an alternative name.
Jonathan
[*] That might just be the domain registration company I use.