Thanet Blog List - Gone?
Written by Matt B · first published 29/12/2007
I attempted to view the Thanet blog list today and discovered that there was a spam site where the listing should be. The site is running domainless on IP 74.54.78.34 which is connected to a domain "websitewelcome.com". The whois data on this domain is hidden by a proxy service.
The domain name (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 ISP 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.
The domain name (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 ISP 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:
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.