Turnpoint Exchange Web Site Highjacked?

Late breaking news. The http://www.aerobatics.ws/ web site hierarchy
now points to a filler page that states "Under Construction - The
domain (WWW.AEROBATICS.WS) is currently under construction - Click here
to contact the domain owner". The page still has a ton of advertising
but its better than what it was. This group of ISP owners are really a
trip.

Clicking on "contact the domain owner" produces an error "ERROR:
Invalid Sponsor Username (owner_contact.dhtml)". Great, just great.

- John

The domain expired and is available for purchase on
http://website.ws/released.dhtml

The email address the domain whois refers to is gei#cfa.harvard.edu.

Is this a valid email address for John L?
note I swapped the @ for a #.

Al

ContestID67 wrote:
Late breaking news. The http://www.aerobatics.ws/ web site hierarchy
now points to a filler page that states "Under Construction - The
domain (WWW.AEROBATICS.WS) is currently under construction - Click here
to contact the domain owner". The page still has a ton of advertising
but its better than what it was. This group of ISP owners are really a
trip.

Clicking on "contact the domain owner" produces an error "ERROR:
Invalid Sponsor Username (owner_contact.dhtml)". Great, just great.

- John

is/was an e-mail for guenther eichhorn, who ported the site/domain from
the old harvard site.

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~gei/geichhorn.html

Frank

wrote:
The domain expired and is available for purchase on
http://website.ws/released.dhtml

The email address the domain whois refers to is gei#cfa.harvard.edu.

Is this a valid email address for John L?
note I swapped the @ for a #.

Al

ContestID67 wrote:
Late breaking news. The http://www.aerobatics.ws/ web site hierarchy
now points to a filler page that states "Under Construction - The
domain (WWW.AEROBATICS.WS) is currently under construction - Click here
to contact the domain owner". The page still has a ton of advertising
but its better than what it was. This group of ISP owners are really a
trip.

Clicking on "contact the domain owner" produces an error "ERROR:
Invalid Sponsor Username (owner_contact.dhtml)". Great, just great.

- John

They're "still working on it", and the domain hasn't been "sold off" or
"hijacked", it's a problem with the folks who run the "registry". Just
bookmark

soaring.gahsys.com [ thank you! Glen Holden ]
and
soaring.xinqu.net [ thank you! Philip Plane ]

if any of the three go south for any reason. Things continue to be
updated on the sites -
the Argentine Nationals turnpoints, Region 12 flight logs, and the PRL
were all updated in the last 24 hours.

apologies for the inconvenience,

John Leibacher

After half a dozen phone calls where they assured us that there was
just a little mixup with the registration of the aerobatics.ws domain
name, registry.com now says that they have lost the aerobatics.ws
domain name, they don't know how to get it back, and they'll send back
the renewal fee which they received in July - I leave it to the gentle
reader to form their own impression of the competence and
professionalism of these ....

Guenther Eichhorn has secured a new domain name ( from a different
provider, in case you didn't guess) http://soaringweb.org

Apologies for the inconvenience and many thanks to Guenther, and the
mirror site providers Philip Plane (soaring.xinqu.net) and Glenn Holden
(soaring.gahsys.com). Make sure that you have all three server
addresses bookmarked.

Best wishes for a great, safe 2007,

John Leibacher