On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:34:49 -0500, Anthony wrote:
Put 184.172.174.94 for wikipediareview.com in your hosts file. (Fortunately, as SOPA has not passed, this is legal :)).
Like I'm gonna go reconfiguring my own system just to get around the fact that those guys can't keep their act together well enough to properly manage their domain registration?
It appears that wikipediareview.org also belongs to them and has not yet expired, but unfortunately they have it set up to redirect to the nonfunctional .com domain. (I personally would have done the redirection the opposite way, since it's a noncommercial criticism and discussion site, more logically done as a .org rather than implying commerciality with .com; Wikipedia itself switched from .com to .org when it went noncommercial.) They could easily make their site accessible again simply by setting up the .org domain to point directly at the site instead of redirecting, but probably that configuration is in the hands of the same person who failed to renew the other domain, maybe a different person than whoever manages the web hosting itself. I could never untangle the details of the ownership/management of that site, which has sometimes been in heated dispute.
On 19 January 2012 13:12, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
It appears that wikipediareview.org also belongs to them and has not yet expired, but unfortunately they have it set up to redirect to the nonfunctional .com domain. (I personally would have done the redirection the opposite way, since it's a noncommercial criticism and discussion site, more logically done as a .org rather than implying commerciality with .com; Wikipedia itself switched from .com to .org when it went noncommercial.) They could easily make their site accessible again simply by setting up the .org domain to point directly at the site instead of redirecting, but probably that configuration is in the hands of the same person who failed to renew the other domain, maybe a different person than whoever manages the web hosting itself. I could never untangle the details of the ownership/management of that site, which has sometimes been in heated dispute.
It turns out that trolls and cranks don't get along with each other any better than they get along with the rest of us.
- d.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:34:49 -0500, Anthony wrote:
Put 184.172.174.94 for wikipediareview.com in your hosts file. (Fortunately, as SOPA has not passed, this is legal :)).
Like I'm gonna go reconfiguring my own system just to get around the fact that those guys can't keep their act together well enough to properly manage their domain registration?
It has its alt.hackersesque charm :).
They've now publicized and promoted the url http://184.172.174.94/~wikipede/
Someone should purchase the domain and redirect it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page just to spite them ;)
James.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:34:49 -0500, Anthony wrote:
Put 184.172.174.94 for wikipediareview.com in your hosts file. (Fortunately, as SOPA has not passed, this is legal :)).
Like I'm gonna go reconfiguring my own system just to get around the fact that those guys can't keep their act together well enough to properly manage their domain registration?
It has its alt.hackersesque charm :).
They've now publicized and promoted the url http://184.172.174.94/~wikipede/
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