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Thanet Blog List - Gone?

Written by Matt B · first published 29/12/2007
I attempted to view the blog list today and discovered that there was a spam site where the listing should be. The site is running domainless on IP which is connected to a domain "websitewelcome.com". The whois data on this domain is hidden by a proxy service.

The (which is where the problem seems to be) has been registered until next year (07-Dec-2008 according to dns stuff) but some change was made on the 28th of December this year. This suggests to me that someone has hijacked the domain (I hope not) or his website's has big issues.

I hope things get sorted out soon.

Update: It seems that the domain websitewelcome.com is part of the private reseller system for hostgator.com. It might be that a small scale host has folded and taken our list with them. I have a server with available space if it will help.

Update 2: Not gone just moving hosts.


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Thanet Blog List wrote:

Don't worry, I've changed hosts and last night I updated the dns and this morning relaised I may have put the nameservers in the wrong order. IT's getting sorted and I'm just waiting for the dns changeover to take effect.

Good detective work though, and I thought I'd check here.

Basically the site was quite sluggish on my old hosting with 1&1 due to their innability to give me more mySQL databases. I got new hosting with Hostgator for some of my other sites and so yesterday transferred files etc over, copied the database and then started to sort out the dns. Of course there's going to be a little lag, but it should all be fine later on.

Laters.
29/12/2007 11:18:24

Matt B wrote:

Well thank goodness for that. Good to know that you are still here and will be back up to speed once the root Name Servers sort themselves out.

Another Thanet mystery solved.
29/12/2007 12:29:11

Thanet Blog List wrote:

And we're now back online! ... and performing a bit quicker on the backend too!
29/12/2007 18:17:01

Matt B wrote:

Groovey. Now you are all set to take over the world! ...or at least worry a little less about it all falling down.
30/12/2007 15:11:15

kez wrote:

yay! just dropped by to say hi! so, 'HI!'
30/12/2007 17:40:16

Matt B wrote:

Thanks for stopping by babe.
31/12/2007 14:20:47

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