Saw this when loading up Mt. Bachelor’s web site this morning at the office:
If you’re not familiar with that screen, that’s the Network Solutions default domain page when your domain is expired or has no nameservers set.
Looking at the Whois record, it appears that the domain expired last week (Dec. 8, 2010):
I’ve let my contacts at Mt. Bachelor know so hopefully they can keep their domain, but I can only imagine the grief this is causing them right now right in the middle of ski season.
Update: It appears that it’s working in some places, it just depends on your DNS provider or what you have cached (like, for example, I’m seeing their mobile site). OpenDNS has the IP address 166.70.18.97, but Google’s DNS is still pulling the NetSol IP of 209.62.105.19, so obviously something’s gone wonky. As somebody who’s had to troubleshoot DNS stuff like this, I don’t envy them as you’re at the mercy of DNS servers around the ‘net to get their act together and clear their cache, which can take days sometimes.
Looking at the NetSol whois, they appear to have renewed it today through 2019, but are just waiting for things to clear. They have the IP address as 206.71.85.71, but that doesn’t appear to be loading for me at all. So who knows what it’s actually supposed to be.
Comments
*blarg* OpenDNS sucks (can you say DNS hijacks, thankyouverymuch, jerks!). Network Solutions sucks worse though. (Can you say domain lock-in?)
‘Hope Mt. Bachy learns their lesson and moves their domain and DNS hosting elsewhere.
OpenDNS has its place. It’s nice in some environments if you need to do office-wide filtering of content and don’t have a content-filtering firewall in place. I use it for a couple public WiFi installs, too, and it works as a good little filter (I have a back up filter as well, just in case people set their own DNS, but since it rarely gets hit, it’s generally not too much of a problem).
My contacts at Mt. B. told me that the problems was figuring out who was going to pay the bill: Corporate (Powder Corp. right?), or the folks at Mt. B. They couldn’t have figured that out last week, or even *before*, when it was due? Even with NetSol, domain renewal is less than $50/year (I think) which is a lot less of a cost than the grief they got on their facebook page during the outage when their site was down. I’m sure their folks have better things to do than to post current conditions to everybody who asks, which I’m sure was a payroll suck.