The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website...

VoGE · Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 23

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

bbchris

Your www.VoiceOfGoldenEagle.com doesn't work :seismo

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

VoGE · Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 23

Sorry... That's because VoiceOfGoldenEagle.com is just a redirect to the mp3.com/voge site, which is still nonfunctional.

rod steel global · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 636

in need of another renewal fee.

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{Rod RetroMusic Steel}{Export Music Swedish}

MIKE BURN

LOL That would be cool (if true)

Hey VoGE!!! Welcome here!!!!!!!!!!

MIKE

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

Yep....and if you did that, THANKS SINCERELY!!

:thumb

MP3.DUMB(ASSES)!!!!

:bcool

markhewer · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 246

hey great job!....AND

IT'S FIXED!!!

See here...

MARK HEWER AT MP3.COM

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

Yesssssssss.....

:thumb

yidneth · A Spanish Fairytale Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 780

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

rod steel global · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 636

Yeah it's working !!

No stations feature this artist. :stress

SilverSide

...er... perhaps I have to upload something :laugh

Netjams · Joined: 27 Dec 2001 Posts: 2308

AQUARIAN AGE · Austrian Peacekeeper Joined: 22 Dec 2001 Posts: 612

Our Religion · Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 35

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?

droolymutt · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:31 am Post subject: Re: cool

Actually, VoGE... - I'm almost starting to believe you......

But, nah.... I'm the eternal cynic......

Hey, - VoGE - wanna buy a ROLEX...¿¿¿¿????......

No arms attached - special deal - just for you.......