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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Tom, I would send in the renewal for the domain name as many times they hold
a name for a period of time in case a late renewal comes in.

Send me the domain name via private email and I'll try to find where it was.
It's probably still in the DNS tables.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] domain name question


> Deborah and I are trying to help out friends who lost their website.
> These folks paid some cousin's-sister's-friend to set up a simple
> brochure site for their farm a couple years ago.  Apparently a divorce
> and bad blood ensued and said designer is no longer reachable.
>
> The domain name expired last month and the site disappeared with it.
> Some of the content appears on the Wayback Machine, thankfully.
> Presumeably the content is still on the (free) server someplace, but
> these folks don't know who the host is and we can't find anything about
> it.
>
> We tried to re-register the domain name, and PairNIC says it is
> unavailable.  Netsol's whois says it is expired but unavailable, but we
> can "snapback" order it for just $69/year.  Apparently the previous
> registrar was joker.com.  Not a confidence-inspiring name.  Joker's
> whois says "Name Server: NOT-RENEWED.JOKER.COM".
>
> Questions:
>
> - Is there a way to find the IP address for a recently-expired domain
name?
>
> - How do we get the domain name out of DNS limbo?
>
> All sage advice will be much appreciated.
>
> TaB
>
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