[Box-Admins] Re: [Board] Re: [squeak-dev] squeak domain expired?

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 12:51:22PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>
>> On 07-02-2014, at 12:37 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Dave.  Before we put it to rest, should we see about Box-Admins
>>> assuming responsibility for this in case we have an issue in the
>>> future?  Having this on shoulders of those who have long since
>>> departed the community creates unnecessary burden for them and risk
>>> for Squeak.
>>
>> Would the SFC be a good ?person? to include? In theory at least they are a long-lived organisation.
>>
>
> Dan Ingalls and G?ran Krampe have the squeak.org account at Network Solutions,
> and I am sure that they would both be happy to have someone else looking after
> the bills.
>
> But the first order of business is to actually get the DNS records activated.
> I was expecting things to start working again after "a couple of hours" but from
> where I sit, squeak.org is still dead. If it is still down tomorrow, I'll see if
> I can get through to someone at Network Solutions again by phone. Supposedly, the
> squeak.org names were to have been reactivated for 15 days on a courtesy basis,
> but I'm worried now that this may not have happened.

I think it's just a DNS cache issue on your side. squeak.org resolves to 
the right IP address here, and the whois record has also been restored.


Levente

P.S.: Thanks for the quick solution to this problem.

>
> I offered to pay the bill, but Network Solutions cannot accept the payment until
> either Dan Ingalls or G?ran Krampe tells them that the request is legitimate.
> I think they are worried about scammers (rightly so I'm sure).
>
> G?ran has already replied, and he may be able to contact Network Solutions, or
> to get in touch with Dan to do so. This should not be an issue, because we
> have plenty of time to take care of it, so long as Network Solutions gives
> us the 15 day grace period (as they said they would do earlier today in my
> phone call).
>
> My only worry right now is that the 15 day reactivition may not actually
> have happened, or perhaps that there is something else that needs to be
> done that I'm not aware of.
>
> By the way, I'm no expert in this stuff, I just decided to call the 800 number
> and work through the phone menus to see if I could find someone to help. The
> person I finally reached (Deleen) was very friendly and helpful. I was trying
> to explain what squeak.org is in an attempt to convince her that squeak.org
> is legitimate, so I refered her to the squeakland.org site for reference. She
> thought that was great, since she is a teacher herself. But she still could
> not take my money until she got confirmation from G?ran or Dan.
>
> Dave
>
>