[Info-vax] OPENVMS Hobbiest domain name invalid

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In article <c760c92a-4034-4234-aed5-03a0cdfd9ddd at k38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
>On Feb 7, 7:15=A0am, abrsvc <dansabrservi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I've been trying to connect to the hobbiest site for a few days and
>> finally revceived a message that the domain name has expired. =A0What's
>> up with that?
>>
>> Dan
>
>Everyone,
>
>A check of the DNS (using NSLOOKUP), together with some background on
>the domain registration process easily explains the parking page.
>
>When a domain registration expires, the DNS is often re-pointed to a
>parking page, in accord with the domain registrars policies. The
>original owner has a period of time to reclaim the domain (this deals
>somewhat with the inevitable administrative errors, as well as people
>being away from email for a bit -- for personal and technical reasons
>-- consider all of the people who were cut off when various natural
>and political events interfere with Internet access).
>
>For the next day, or couple of days, depending mainly upon your ISP's
>name servers, the parking page may appear. This is as expected. The
>DNS (at this instant) is showing that the expiry for records is 7
>days, the refresh is 8 hours, and the TTL is 1 day. Until all of the
>systems in the DNS food chain leading from your individual ISPs to
>GoDaddy.com (the registrar for OPENVMSHOBBYIST.ORG) purge their cached
>information, the parking page will appear. This is as expected. When
>assisting clients with DNS changes, I always caution them about the
>implications of this phenomenon.
>
>- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com


... and, if you're really desperate to get there, use:

http://173.74.245.163/news.php

until all of the DNS stuff gets itself sorted out.

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