Has The Register Become A Dot Gone?
from the really-gone? dept
Alun Webber writes “Has The Register become a dot gone? Doing a “whois” on theregister.co.uk today gives:
(the “DETAGGED” status means that the former tag holder has relinquished all responsibility for the domain name and effectively terminated their service)
[Query: theregister.co.uk, Server: whois.nic.uk]
Domain Name: THEREGISTER.CO.UK
Registered For: The Register
Domain Registered By: DETAGGED
Record last updated on 24-Dec-2001 by varanis@uk.psi.com.
Domain servers listed in order:
WHOIS database last updated at 10:21:00 25-Dec-2001″
That’s odd. We had just posted a story about how they were laying off a few folks, and the site is definitely down as I check this. It really would be unfortunate if they were gone. It appears their Salmon Days show thing is still going… Anyone have any more info?
Comments on “Has The Register Become A Dot Gone?”
I first noticed when...
some of the security portal links on freshmeat failed to bring up the advertized story. My provider’s DNS doesn’t seem to resove http://www.theregister.co.uk; however, if you check some of the web based dig/nslookup services it still resovles and when I add the reported IP adderss into my hosts file, there doesn’t seem to be a web page there. Persaonlly, I thought they were just doing a poorly thought out transition between hosting providers, but I failed to check the WHOIS info (which, depending on the NIC, lags by as much as two weeks).
They're back
% whois -h whois.nic.uk theregister.co.uk
Domain Name: THEREGISTER.CO.UK
Registered For: The Register
Domain Registered By: PSINET
Record last updated on 27-Dec-2001 by fg@Nominet.
Domain servers listed in order:
WHOIS database last updated at 12:04:01 27-Dec-2001