Either aka.tv has up and gone out of business without so much as a goodbye, or else somebody over at the industry's favorite news site (aside from us, of course), has forgotten to renew their domain name. Since they use the exotic .tv TLD, as opposed to a regular .com, .net or .co.uk, you can't use a good tool like Better Whois to query the owner. Instead, you have to rely on a much less informative Verisign tool that notes only the following:
Domain Name: AKA.TVThey more than likely just forgot to renew their domain name (or had their registrar go out of business, which happens from time to time), so hopefully this should get resolved shortly.
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Name Server: DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM
Status: CLIENT-XFER-PROHIBITED
Updated Date: 19-mar-2007
Creation Date: 18-mar-2004
Expiration Date: 18-mar-2008
Last update of whois database: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:01:19 EDT
Has anybody heard differently?
[2007-03-23 UPDATE]: Looks like the site's back up. Per Barnaby's comment below, it appears it was just a technical glitch.
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3 comments:
Reports of our death are, happily, very much exaggerated - as you surmise, it's a domain-registration issue, and we're hoping to have it sorted within the next day or so.
In the meantime aka.tv editorial staff are biting their nails with frustration on three different continents as our unpublished stories pile up...still, just like Guinness, we promise good things will come to those who wait!
Regards
Barnaby Page
editor, aka.tv
Glad to hear it. I would have been quite surprised and disappointed to hear otherwise :)
still, it does not look good if one is not master of his "domain"...
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