Amiga.com down

[mongo]

Strange. Amiga.com was working a few days ago. It was just a blank page, but it was working.

[Iggy]

We can only hope that Bill McEwen has finally given up. Its bad enough when the current owner of the Commodore name licenses it out to a furniture dealer to market low power PCs housed in a C64 look alike case, but Amiga Inc actually slowed down or prevented the development of Amiga technology.

Lets hope no one else thinks to resurrect this issue and Hyperion becomes the sole owner of the right to use the Amiga name (not that it matters to me as I'll still be using MorphOS).

[wakido]

Both blank pages again

[persia]

Both Amiga.com and AmigaDevIndia.com resolve to 207.126.57.129.  This is an ip in the range that belongs to Xeroscape/Hard Hat Hosting.  The same company Amiga Inc has always used for hosting.

It appears that 24 A records actually "reside" on that IP:


amiga.com, amigadev.net, amigadevindia.com, boing.amiga.com, de.amiga.com, ftp.amigadev.net, intent-sharp.amigadev.net, lady.amiga.com, lists.amiga.com, mall.amiga.com, mobilezone.amiga.com, newcorp.amigadev.net, os.amiga.com, os.newcorp.amigadev.net, os4.amiga.com, shop.amiga.com, super.amiga.com, thalion.amiga.com, ww.amiga.com, http://www.amiga-anywhere.com, http://www.amiga.com, http://www.amigadev.net, http://www.amigadevindia.com, wwww.amiga.com

[Amiga_Nut]

We can only hope that Bill McEwen has finally given up. Its bad enough when the current owner of the Commodore name licenses it out to a furniture dealer to market low power PCs housed in a C64 look alike case, but Amiga Inc actually slowed down or prevented the development of Amiga technology.

Lets hope no one else thinks to resurrect this issue and Hyperion becomes the sole owner of the right to use the Amiga name (not that it matters to me as I'll still be using MorphOS).

Hyperion are another bunch of idiots, they won't even release a Mac-Mini compatible version of OS4 and massively dropped the ball by not getting in on OS4 as the PS3s native 'other OS' instead of that pile of puke Yellow Dog Linux.

I'd rather they all just dropped dead tomorrow, including Cloanto who are holding up the release of KS to freeware status and fleecing innocent idiots into a £30 copy of UAE with crippled files and encrypted roms.

Unless someone with cash AND brains, like say Google or IBM,  buys the whole lot lock stock and barrel then please dear god let it all end and allow Amiga to rest in peace.

Enough with crap like x1000 and SAM etc etc.

[LoadWB]

A few days ago amiga.com was "parked" by GoDaddy, a WHOIS returned no results for the domain, and this from GoDaddy's registry system: "Updated Date: 29-aug-2010."

This leads me to believe that someone allowed the domain to expire and then suddenly renewed it.  Maybe due to this thread or similar elsewhere.  The current registrant is listed as Vince Pfiefer.

[scuzzb494]

A few days ago amiga.com was "parked" by GoDaddy, a WHOIS returned no results for the domain, and this from GoDaddy's registry system: "Updated Date: 29-aug-2010."

This leads me to believe that someone allowed the domain to expire and then suddenly renewed it.  Maybe due to this thread or similar elsewhere.  The current registrant is listed as Vince Pfiefer.

If you do a search on Whois you get ................

WHOIS information for amiga.com :

[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[whois.verisign-grs.com]

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

   Domain Name: AMIGA.COM
   Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
   Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
   Name Server: NS31.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
   Name Server: NS32.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Status: clientRenewProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Status: clientUpdateProhibited
   Updated Date: 27-aug-2010
   Creation Date: 25-jun-1994
   Expiration Date: 24-jun-2011

There is nothing suspiscious there. Takes a lot lot longer to change the status of a dot com. The Amiga Com page is empty. The page has been edited I would guess by the owner for what ever reason. If the domain was the property of a domain host and there was no owner then you would be redirected to the domain host website. The domain name is not for sale. There is quite a lengthy process in transferring the rights to the domain. Not sure if thats been happening. Cant see why a new owner would create an empty page with just the html tags on it. All the status lines are in the prohibited state so no transition is in place.

PS That Vince Pfeifer is the admin contact at Amiga Inc


Registrant:
Amiga, Inc.

15846 NE 67th Pl
Redmond, Washington 98052
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: AMIGA.COM
Created on: 25-Jun-94
Expires on: 23-Jun-11
Last Updated on: 16-Jun-09

Administrative Contact:
Pfeifer, Vince vince...at..vincepfeifer.com
Amiga, Inc.
15846 NE 67th Pl
Redmond, Washington 98052
United States
+1.4258852284

Technical Contact:
Pfeifer, Vince vince..at..vincepfeifer.com
Amiga, Inc.
15846 NE 67th Pl
Redmond, Washington 98052
United States
+1.4258852284

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.HARDHATHOSTING.NET
NS2.HARDHATHOSTING.NET


Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited

................................... That looks like the domain is owned by Amiga Inc so I really dont see that anything is out of order.


What will be will be.

[persia]

BigBenAussie posted a smiley on the aw.net thread.  Could be just a trick, but there may be Amiga branded PCs on the way....

[1985BMWK75]

Let's hope it stays down!

[dougal]

Enough with crap like x1000 and SAM etc etc.

Very well said. The SAM is an overly priced piece of cr*p in my opinion. You pay all that money for a motherboard, then u need to add expensive ram, a case, a graphics card, case etc.. And once you are done, it has no other use than that of OS4.

As for the X1000, i dont see it anywhere, and even so, the keyboard and mouse for example are just simple Logitech with horrible Boing ball logos stuck on.

At least the Mac Mini (2nd hand) looks nice, its fast and its a hell of a lot cheaper than the SAM.

Other good candidates for OS4 are the Wii and the Gamecube which are both powered by PowerPC CPU's which are very similar to the G3 750FX processors used in the iMac and iBook.