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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: gristle on March 15, 2010, 1918 UTC

Title: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: gristle on March 15, 2010, 1918 UTC

Tried to log in today and got a page for "Network Solutions". Any one else having problems with this.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: Ender on March 15, 2010, 1944 UTC

"frn.net expired on 03/09/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion."

Top right of the page. Hopefully frn buys their domain back  :-\

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: cupid radio on March 15, 2010, 1956 UTC

wtf is that , i hope the logs and stuff will be not gone !!

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: Ender on March 15, 2010, 2002 UTC

Nah, it's a domain issue. Domains just point to the server that the website is on, so it should all be fine.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: John Poet on March 15, 2010, 2033 UTC

Funny, I got that message once, then was able to get to the site a few minutes later.

Now its off again.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: Newfoundland DXer on March 15, 2010, 2101 UTC

I am pretty sure the same thing happened last year.   A few days later it was back to normal (guess someone paid the bill).

Cheers,  Terry

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: syfr on March 15, 2010, 2133 UTC

It's that pesky Boston FCC office!

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: Fansome on March 15, 2010, 2250 UTC

This happens just about every time the domain expires. I'm not sure who actually pays for the name, but it has always come back. Then, Commander Bunny will claim that he shut it down, and threaten to do it again if people don't toe his line.

My understanding is that John Cruzan, one of the founders, "owns" the site, and it is hosted on someone else's physical facility. John hasn't been active on the FRN for years, so perhaps one of the current ops, such as cosmikdebris or L Cee, will step up and pay the fee. Cruzan used to ask for contributions to run the site, but maybe the advertising takes care of that these days.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: John Poet on March 15, 2010, 2303 UTC

If Cruzan does own the domain, he would have to transfer it to someone before they could pay on it... and you can't transfer it while its expired.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: cmradio on March 16, 2010, 0208 UTC

I hope Chris is prepared for the refugee influx.

Peace!

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: Zoidberg on March 16, 2010, 0356 UTC

Same thing happened in 2008 and 2009, the site was back up within a couple of days after someone took care of the admin chores to renew the domain.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: RadioBrandy on March 16, 2010, 1744 UTC

FRN is back up today, and as predicted:

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Commander Bunny will claim that he shut it down, and threaten to do it again if people don't toe his line.

Buy the shirts or else


Thanks to FRN going down; I found this site!


Steve
www.RadioOutlaw.com

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: Fansome on March 16, 2010, 2123 UTC

Still down at my location, but it always seems to take longer to come back up here, for some reason.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: textim on March 16, 2010, 2135 UTC

Still down here too.

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: cupid radio on March 16, 2010, 2144 UTC

Yess thank god it is online  again  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: FRN Seems to be down
Post by: Ender on March 17, 2010, 0537 UTC

Quote from: cupid radio on March 16, 2010, 2144 UTC

Yess thank god it is online  again  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

If it's still not up for you, give it about 24 hours. Some ISP's don't update their DNS cache for a while (like mine)