[DECtalk] The Dectalk site is gone, I think.

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

A clarification here. The domain dectalk.com is still an actively 
registered domain, and expires sometime in November. However, it doesn't 
currently point to any IP address. For those of you who may not know 
what this means, imagine the domain name system as a giant phone book. 
When you want to go somewhere like google.com or amazon.com, your 
computer opens the phone book and looks up the phone number or, in this 
case, Internet address for that site, then connects to that address. 
Only, there's no entry in the giant phone book for dectalk.com, so your 
computer has no idea how to contact the site.

The domain is handled by Dreamhost, so it may be that some Dreamhost 
nameserver is down, and that's what's causing the name lookup failure.
Jayson

On 6/4/2013 7:09 PM, johnnybrl at gmail.com wrote:
> hi folks, don't know if you guys noticed it yet, but dectalk.com is 
> gone.  I tried visiting the site last night, and then firefox says the 
> webpage isn't there anymore.
> And I just tried to go there again, just to make sure it was just down 
> for a while, but this time it took me to my service provider's web 
> site and it says the page doesn't exist.
> It's too bad if this is the case, since I really liked the dectalk 
> archives.
> Just a heads up if you guys hadn't noticed it yet.
> Hopefully it won't be gone for good.
>
>
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