CivSite news: CivFanatics site not accessible

[CivGeneral]

The CivFanatics website and forums are down. I went to CFC this morning and have gotten a 404 error message. Then I went to www.civfanatics.net and found there network status has been updated:

The CivFanatics.com site and forum are temporarily not accessible due to a domain problem. We expect to fix the problem within 2 days. Sorry for the inconvenience. ~ Thunderfall

Anyone who goes to the CFC is going to expect the site to be down within 2 days.

[Case]

...and posters on that site used to criticise Apolyton for being unreliable

[Paul Hanson]

I wonder if they're really sorry for the inconvenience, or if deep down, they couldn`t really give a ****?

[zulu9812]

2 days!!! Jesus, how did they manage to cook up a domain problem anyway?

[Rasbelin]

And the reason for why CFC is down, is that they seem to have forgot to renew their domains each 2 years as their registration period is set to.

The domain civfanatics.net has already expired, but it looks like they have a temporary agreement with their registrar.

Record expires on 09-10-2002
Record created on 09-10-2000

And the civfanatics.com domain has been locked as a precaution for domain hijackers

Status: PROTECTED
Note: To help prevent malicious domain hijacking and domain transfer errors, the registrar has protected the registrant of this domain name registrant by locking it. Any attempted transfers will be denied at the registry until the registrant requests otherwise. The registrant for the name may unlock the name at any time at the current registrar in order for a transfer initiation to succeed.

The conclusion is that they have either run out of cash or they have had a dispute with RegisterFly.com.

The information was gathered from the public WHOIS records.

[Rasbelin]

BTW, there's no more clues out there, so we can only wait or bug Thunderfall for more details.

[germanos]

I have no problem accessing the site

[Rasbelin]

Yes, true, you can access civfanatics.net, but I already stated that in my post.

[Lefty Scaevola]

That's a college boy for you. They always seem to think that some exam that will determine the rest of their life is more important than some web pages and a forum.

[Padma]

Thanks for the clear perspective, Lefty.

We need to remember that for TF, CFC is his avocation, not vocation. I would guess that Real Life reared its ugly head at a bad time, and the result is: "oops!"

[Chris 62]

I spoke with Thunderfall last night, while the site was active, he had no choice, it was NOT his error, it was an admin error on their end.

[rah]

I never noticed that it was down

RAH

[Padma]

Originally posted by Chris 62
I spoke with Thunderfall last night, while the site was active, he had no choice, it was NOT his error, it was an admin error on their end.

Well, I'm at least glad to hear that TF didn't mess up, even accidentally. Now we can blame *them*.

[anarchywrksbest]

Noooo! Not again! What about the Firaxis Chat??

[kring]

Thank you for the update, I vist two other Civ sites regularly, and that is one of them.