QuoteJohn Michael Greer says:
March 31, 2024 at 4:14 pm

K-Dog, long time no see! I'm glad to hear that the Diner is still open for business. If you'd like to post the HTML link here, by all means.

I mentioned JMG today which cause me to visit his website, which caused me to leave a comment.  And you know the rest.

A few days ago 'doomsteaddiner.com' expired while I was at work.  By the time I got home the Men in Black Pants and White Shirts had snapped it up.  I knew it would be expiring on the 28th a couple of months ago and wanted to get it back.  Your tax dollars beat me to it.

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 31, 2024, 03:10 PMA few days ago 'doomsteaddiner.com' expired while I was at work.  By the time I got home the Men in Black Pants and White Shirts had snapped it up.  I knew it would be expiring on the 28th a couple of months ago and wanted to get it back.  Your tax dollars beat me to it.

Actually,  I used DoomsteadDiner.net as my URL for most of the time the Diner was in operation.  I used the .com url while I had it hosted on GoDaddy, but after getting in a disagreement with them I moved to A Small Orange and bought the .net url there.  It was easier and quicker than getting the .com URL back from GoDaddy at the time.

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Quote from: RE on Mar 31, 2024, 05:35 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 31, 2024, 03:10 PMA few days ago 'doomsteaddiner.com' expired while I was at work.  By the time I got home the Men in Black Pants and White Shirts had snapped it up.  I knew it would be expiring on the 28th a couple of months ago and wanted to get it back.  Your tax dollars beat me to it.

Actually,  I used DoomsteadDiner.net as my URL for most of the time the Diner was in operation. 

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I just checked and it says doomsteaddiner.com and .net .org are all available.

Did someone give the .com back in just a matter of days?

Quote from: TDoS on Mar 31, 2024, 07:41 PM

Quote from: RE on Mar 31, 2024, 05:35 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 31, 2024, 03:10 PMA few days ago 'doomsteaddiner.com' expired while I was at work.  By the time I got home the Men in Black Pants and White Shirts had snapped it up.  I knew it would be expiring on the 28th a couple of months ago and wanted to get it back.  Your tax dollars beat me to it.

Actually,  I used DoomsteadDiner.net as my URL for most of the time the Diner was in operation. 

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I just checked and it says doomsteaddiner.com and .net .org are all available.

Did someone give the .com back in just a matter of days?

No they are not.  They are available to be bought from someone else and it takes  seventy dollars to start bidding for it.  I would expect the actual  price to be in the hundreds of dollars.  But we won't ever know because if I can't get them for ten bucks which is what expired or unclaimed domains cost, then what we have will be just fine.

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The smiling face is from the Go-Daddy page.  That is who I used to register chasingthesquirrel.com.  Domain doomsteaddiner.org is also taken.  That is only the broker service fee for the domains.  The money I would eventually pay for the domains, to then become dark money for use by alphabet agencies would be much more I am sure.

Quote from: TDoS on Mar 31, 2024, 07:41 PMI just checked and it says doomsteaddiner.com and .net .org are all available.

Not according to domains.com

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doomsteaddiner.xyz is available for $2.99.

Plus a bunch of others.  .us , .info, .co etc

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QuoteActually,  I used DoomsteadDiner.net as my URL for most of the time the Diner was in operation.  I used the .com url while I had it hosted on GoDaddy, but after getting in a disagreement with them I moved to A Small Orange and bought the .net url there.

Go Daddy still manages the chasingthesquirrel.com domain but I have changed who hosts the site twice.

Visit the link and read what I wrote today.  Clicking on the globe does the same thing.

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 31, 2024, 09:24 PMVisit the link and read what I wrote today.

It's a never-ending battle.  I opened the Diner originally due to censorship on Yahoo Groups.  They started deleting no-no words mainly, not really going after content and ideas at the time.  I also wanted more control over graphical features and the "look" of the website.  I did have to give up a few features I really liked.  There was an interactive database users could add links to that you could search and a calendar for users to put important dates into such as conferences and protest actions.  Peter, my original tech guy said he could create those for me, but he never got round to it.  The solution we found of using both the Wordpress and Simple Machine Forum packages with some tweaks got most of what I wanted.

Later on, the Diner started running into problems of disappearing posts from the SMF, which I solved by paying for an auto-backup service.  There were still issues with fake members and so forth, but overall it ran OK until I took it offline.  The action has been similar here since we combined the Diner with Squirrel, perhaps a little more since it's both of us with our own detail of MIB that have followed us around over the years joining forces.  lol.

Overall here as well, K-Dog has done a good job of keeping up with the various annoyances that crop up, which you really can never completely stop and still have a generally accessible website.  Nature of the Beast in our current world.

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