website : Domain Renewal Weirdness

posted 2009.06.16 at 11:18

Apparently the ATC domain expired around 9am UTC today. I discovered this when I loaded the front page and noticed that all dualist.atc content was [?]. All subdomains unreachable but root works? Oh yeah - I'd stuck the server IP in my hosts file awhile back to work around a DNS issue and forgot about it.

I've hacked things on my end - I'll be able to update the site (not that any updates are pending) until the domain issue is resolved.

Bryan paid for renewal before the domain expired (we're good till 2011 according to WHOIS), so the lock and the nserver redirect to the provider's not-renewed subdomain is an anomaly that'll hopefully be sorted shortly.

If you've tried to load ATC recently and received a "Server not found" error or its equivalent instead, that's the cause.

Update, 2009.06.18 - Everything's back to normal. It was back to normal in most places yesterday afternoon, but my home DNS just recently got the memo.

Nothing to see here, move along.