Is it true? Did Free Republic fail to renew their domain?

[Stoic]

It's down and whois says the domain is locked.

[arcane1]

1. must be that $75,000 per month operating cost

maybe RimJob was spending it on Oxycontin :P

[bearfartinthewoods]

24. no... they entered an invalid contact in their contact info

[trotsky]

2. BWAH HA HA HA HA

Say it ain't so! RimJob must have really messed up!

[CO Liberal]

3. It Just Came Up

I tried it and got there.

[Dookus]

5. doesn't work for me...

I tried earlier today, and it's still down.

[PaDUer]

7. Can't get there either. n/t

[Frodo]

12. It takes awhile for the message to propagate through the internet.

Not all of the domain lists update at the same time. Some ISP providers can take longet than others before you will have access.

You need to spend a lot of time there?

[tom_paine]

8. I just tried it and couldn't get through

Fuckin' shame, ain't it?

[PaDUer]

32. Maybe someone did to them

as they do to other websites? They've got some good hackers over there...but, there's a couple of new groups that spun off from the freep site who've been putting everything out about rimjob and some others on that site...Lot of interesting things coming out...

[mr_hat]

4. If they did, they'll still have 45 days to redeem it. >

After that, it's fair game (unless already backordered).

[LiberalFighter]

34. It looks like it is paid up until 2006

I think they either have technical problems or the ISP has had complaints about them and shut them down.

[Stoic]

6. That was fast.

15 minutes ago the domain was "locked" according to whois. Ahhhhh, we can always dream, can't we?

[The Night Owl]

9. An End To Evil

:nopity:

[LiberalFighter]

10. Interesting

Domain Name: FREEREPUBLIC.COM
Created on..............: 23-SEP-1996
Expires on..............: 22-SEP-2006
Record last updated on..: 24-MAR-2004
Status..................: INACTIVE

[Walt Starr]

11. QUICK!!! SOMEBODY BUY IT!!!!

ROFLMAO!!!

[9215]

36. CALL GEORGE SOROS!!! BWAAAAAAA!

:bounce: :bounce:

[9215]

37. Maybe we should all pitch in, buy

the domain name and pipe all the "hitters" over to DU!!

[Nomad559]

13. I get nothing either

It's down here In Fresno. :evilgrin:

[Robbien]

14. They falsified their telephone number as 555-555-5555

so they got shut down.

Idiots.

[PartyPooper]

29. But, EVERYBODY knows it's 666-666-666!

:evilgrin:

[meti57b]

15. Looks like it's available .... try this out ....

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/

[demsrule4life]

I typed in freerepublic

it came up as avalible.

[Toucano]

16. It's coming up fine for me.

When I entered freerepublic.com I got a DNS error. It came up fine with www.freerepublic.com though.

I really hate typing that address! :(

[Walt Starr]

26. They've probably renewed and the DNS entry hasn't propogated fully

Could take a couple of days before it's 100% back if that's the case.

[bighig]

41. They've been talking DNS error all day

I was in most of the day - couldn't get in tonight. No great loss - just wanted to check on the Delay Nat Retail Sales Tax thread.

[bif]

17. It was renewed today.

I just looked it up at register.com

[LiberalFighter]

38. I don't think it was renewed today

Most likely it would had been renewed in September. The site was created on 23 Sept 1996 and expires on 22 Sept 2006


According to DNSstuff's WHOIS Search the status is listed as REGISTRAR-HOLD

REGISTRAR-HOLD: The sponsoring registrar sets this status. The domain can not be modified or deleted. The registrar must remove REGISTRAR-HOLD status to modify the domain. The domain can be renewed. The domain will not be included in the zone.


The registrant Jim Robinson had the phone number as 5555555555
It is apparently now listed as 5592731400

[izzie]

18. Did not come up for me.

I always check it out.

[bedtimeforbonzo]

19. it's still down from Phoenix.

n/t

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. I hope some enterprizing site jumper

puts up a bunch of porn ads at www.freerepublic.com then makes them pay through the nose to buy it back.

[everythingsxen]

21. A shame...

Freepers are loons and barely worthy foes, but they were at least better than those idiots at Conservative Underground.

*sigh*

[DerekGD]

22. It went down because they exceeded the Internet Stupidity Quota

[LiberalFighter]

39. Then why isn't it down more often???

It should be down on an hourly basis!!!!!!!!!

[Nlighten1]

23. It is still up...

http://209.157.64.200

[Hippo_Tron]

27. Dupe n/t

[WillyT]

25. Can't GetThere From Here Either, LOL !!!

What a shame...

:evilgrin:

[Hippo_Tron]

28. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but...

http://www.register.com/whois-results.cgi?81a7bbe70f357a4d9ced8f92f87b117a6b959bff6908788367382bb53372797e053134773f2f36850919946d9e496ce147e7077bd89d6347

RimJob still owns the domain name. Hey, don't shoot the messenger

[smirkymonkey]

30. It's all those unemployed freepers....

well, I suppose now they will all go volunteer for the Bush campaign.

Better yet, we should send them off to fight the terraists, now that they are idle.

[brokensymmetry]

31. Take a look at this!

You'll love this thread!

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1105167/posts

[jamesconway]

33. Dummies

Those folks are real losers.

[kaitykaity]

35. It's up. You have to use the IP number, tho.

This from their site:

Good news: the registrar has finally been updated. Bad news: it may take hours to a full day for the changes to propagate. See the current discussion for more information.
From now on we're going to maintain http://FreeRepublic.info for site information. Currently this name points to our website as an alternate DNS entry. Please bookmark this .info URL for up-to-date status information.

[shekina]

40. i tried to go to it 5 minutes ago

and it said the page couldn't be found