[Info-vax] OPENVMS Hobbiest domain name invalid

[jbriggs444]

On Feb 7, 9:16 am, Bob Gezelter <gezel... at rlgsc.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 7:15 am, 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.  What'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

Although the TTL on parking pages is one or two weeks, I believe that
Bill Gunshannon has the more relevant explanation.  The domain was
hijacked by a squatter going by an alias of Socrates Poole on the 6'th
of this monh.

Domain ID:D94413969-LROR
Domain Name:OPENVMSHOBBYIST.ORG
Created On:06-Feb-2003 03:20:39 UTC
Last Updated On:07-Feb-2011 11:40:28 UTC
Expiration Date:06-Feb-2012 03:20:39 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD
Registrant ID:CR30528930
Registrant Name:Socrates Poole
Registrant Street1:P.O. Box 74391
Registrant City:Dallas
Registrant State/Province:Texas
Registrant Postal Code:75374
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.2147495600
Registrant Email:socrates_poole at yahoo.com

The registered DNS servers are ns63.domaincontrol.com and
ns64.domaincontrol.com (no DNS cache problems for me).
Those servers return an IP address of:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
openvmshobbyist.org.    3600    IN      A       68.178.232.99

My company has that IP address blacklisted.  According to
ARIN, it belongs to GoDaddy.

The web page there appears to be broken.  This particular
squatter isn't successfully selling light bulbs, insurance,
spamming software or porno.

Per another post in this thread, the correct IP address would
have been 173.74.245.163