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VoGE
Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 23
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 4:25 am Post subject: The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website... |
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I am Voice of Golden Eagle (mp3.com/voge). When I went to my artist site URL this morning, I saw one of the infamous VeriSign redirects instead of my music, complete with the dreaded message, "We didn't find: "artists.mp3s.com"
There is no Web site at this address."
MP3S.com?
Further investigation showed that MP3.com was almost entirely broken. While the front page (mp3.com) was still there, any link that went to their MP3S.com "sub-domain" was non functional. That meant the music charts and ALL streaming music services were down!
A quick check of the domain whois database showed the root
cause of the problem... MP3.com had allowed their MP3S.com
sub-domain to expire on September 23rd and had not yet renewed!
A multi-million dollar web presence stopped dead over a
$35 renewal fee.
As an artist being directly affected by this breakdown my next
actions were clear. I picked up the phone and called Network
Solutions customer support. Within minutes I used my own credit card to purchase a one year renewal for the MP3S.com domain. Something no one else had yet done.
So now I wait along with thousands of other artists for the
switch to flip and turn us all back on; a process that can take
24 to 48 hours as the new routing instructions propagate across the Web. But as I wait I smile, thinking about how the Net's "Premiere Music Streaming Service" had to be rescued by... me!
...VoGE
www.VoiceOfGoldenEagle.com
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
Joined: 01 Jan 2002 Posts: 11441 Location: Hong Kong
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Seismic Anamoly
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VoGE
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:43 am Post subject: Re: The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website... |
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Sorry... That's because VoiceOfGoldenEagle.com is just a redirect to the mp3.com/voge site, which is still nonfunctional.
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rod steel global
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MIKE BURN Generally Crazy Guy
Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 4825 Location: Frankfurt / Europe
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Seismic Anamoly
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markhewer
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 2:55 pm Post subject: Re: The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website... |
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hey great job!....AND
IT'S FIXED!!!
See here...
MARK HEWER AT MP3.COM
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Seismic Anamoly
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yidneth A Spanish Fairytale
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 4:37 pm Post subject: but... |
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gee, thanks
ist's working
but i don't understand why mp3.com didn't do this or what's going on still?
thanks
it's nice to see my page up there still
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rod steel global
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Netjams
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AQUARIAN AGE Austrian Peacekeeper
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Our Religion
Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 35
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:34 am Post subject: Re: cool |
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How generous of you to help out this poor corporation.
I would have bought it and sold it back to them.......at a profit. Heh.
Why not?
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droolymutt No Underblurb
Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 6721 Location: Montreal, Canada
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