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16 Apr 14 - 11:49 AM (#3619420) Subject: accessing footstompin.com From: Jack Campin The Scottish traditional music business Footstompin has been closed and up for sale for a while now, but its forum has been continuing as normal. Today something's gone wrong. Attempting to access the site doesn't work if you use the sitename - I assume its registration has expired. But the forum is still accessible (and appears to work exactly the same) if you access it by IP number: http://92.53.242.172/forum |
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16 Apr 14 - 07:38 PM (#3619610) Subject: RE: accessing footstompin.com From: GUEST,DTM Yep - I tried to access the forum too and it's vamoosed. I've been told it's finished. Sad - not even a last 'goodbye' Maybe some mudder can shed some light on the situation. It was a good site for local info/chat, etc. |
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16 Apr 14 - 07:53 PM (#3619613) Subject: RE: accessing footstompin.com From: Jack Campin I just managed to post a message to it, using the link above. I had to ignore a warning about invalid security certificates. Makes sense that if the registration had lapsed, so would the security certification. In any event I used a low-security password for the site that I don't use for anything serious, so I wasn't risking anything even if the site had been spoofed. The site was last crawled by the archive.org Wayback Machine on 16 February, so everything posted before then should be recoverable. |
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17 Apr 14 - 10:01 AM (#3619720) Subject: RE: accessing footstompin.com From: GUEST The site still has domain registration until the end of August this year (I checked), so that can't be the reason it's down. |
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17 Apr 14 - 10:34 AM (#3619727) Subject: RE: accessing footstompin.com From: Jack Campin A message on Nigel Gatherer's forum says they had a DNS problem but it should be back tomorrow. |