[Info-vax] Dead links at HP's OpenVMS site (no surprise here)

[David Froble]

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 1/25/2013 6:24 AM, abrsvc wrote:
>>
>> While the link may be wrong, a simple change to WWW.VMSHOBBIEST.ORG 
>> will work.
>> Why the "open" was dropped, I don't know...
> 
> The domain name expired, and the human that had originally registered 
> the name was not reachable by anyone that was managing the site.
> 
> Godaddy refused to deal with anyone other than that human, so they had 
> to register another name.  Godaddy then let another organization 
> register the original domain name.
> 
> Regards,
> -John
> 
> 

Well, a simple explanation.

And here I thought we were finally getting rid of the "open" ....

:-)