Sagebrush Saloon Domain Expired

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:32:27 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

One of my daily forum visits is The Sagebrush Saloon, Henrietta Bowman's continuation of the Sierra Times forums. Today, when I went there, I was greeted by a domain seller page. Apparently, the domain expired and wasn't renewed in time. I was able to get in by google sleuthing the IP address, and adding it to my /etc/hosts file:

63.247.141.9 thesagebrushsaloon.com www.thesagebrushsaloon.com

I then sent email to Henrietta, who responded that they've been working on it since yesterday afternoon, and expect it to be back up soon. Don't know if they'll manage to recover the domain, but I'll keep all y'all informed as I learn about changes. For now, that /etc/hosts mod will let you in, if you've got admin access to your own computer, which most, but not all, do.

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Domain Reg

Submitted by Junker on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:03:47 GMT

Every year I gotta pay for a new site-name registration. If I'm gone and miss
the billing... oh well...my site is gone.
Too bad I can't pay for years with a one year hold, or some
such capitalistic solution.

I wonder if this a result of the Inet control committee.

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NearlyFreeSpeech.net

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:08:18 GMT

NearlyFreeSpeech.net allows domain renewals at any time, for a period of 1 to 9 years.

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Site mngmt - NearlyFreeSpeech.net

Submitted by Junker on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:03:59 GMT

That's keen. I used them back when, but I
like having auto-installs, so I've kept my
other provider. Click & I've a new forum.

But, I may try NFSN and figure out my own
installs. The are compatible with Freedom
outlaws
.

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You can use NFS for domain

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:13:13 GMT

You can use NFS for domain registration but not web service. I do that for billstclair.com, Truledger.com, and lyricsalone.com. They give you complete control of nameservers, to use your web host's DNS, and of DNS records, if you use theirs.

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The Sagebrush Saloon is back

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:18:40 GMT

Looks like www.TheSagebrushSaloon.com is back.

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Added IP addresses to "Daily Visits" page

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:57:23 GMT

I updated my Daily Visits page with IP addresses for all the linked sites, in little tiny text.

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