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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
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MP3Artists
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:54 am Post subject: Re: The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website... |
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well the domain is still listed in WHOIS as being owned by MP3.com, VoGe. Ya know I thought the same thing myself and was going to ck it out. The place has just gotten beyond belief. I think it's time to do some massive editing of my pages. Has anybody else experienced a reduction in their "plays" figure ? Mine is half of what it was.
here is the current WHOIS info.
Registrant:
MP3.com, Inc. (MP3S-DOM)
4790 Eastgate Mall Rd
San Diego, CA 92121
US
Domain Name: MP3S.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
MP3.com (HM3936-ORG)                hostmaster@MP3.COM
MP3.com
4790 EASTGATE MALL
SAN DIEGO, CA 92121-1970
US
858-623-7000 fax: 858-623-7400
Record expires on 26-Sep-2004.
Record created on 07-Oct-2002.
Database last updated on 6-Oct-2003 07:52:36 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
SDNS01.MP3.COM 63.241.16.3
SJNS01.MP3.COM 65.200.216.54
peace
Chris
www.chrisgardner.com
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Ted Lehman Stranger than truth?
Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 165 Location: Baldwin Georgia
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VoGE
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website... |
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bbchris... I can appreciate the humor in your cynicism, but all I did was pay $35 to get my artist site back up a couple of days sooner than MP3.com would probably have acted on it. In the process I also happened to turn over 1,000 other artists back on at the same time.
When was the last time ANYONE bought that much goodwill for $35 US? I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
As for your comments about me calling anyone or anything "stupid", you are sorely mistaken. This was a slip-up that could have happened to ANY company and does almost every day!
It happened to Microsoft in 1999 when they neglected to pay the renewal fee on their passport.com domain. Of course, the Passport service is at the heart of a whole host of Microsoft-related services, including Hotmail and MSN Messenger, and while being unable to trace the Passport servers, some of the most popular services shut up shop until links to the outside world were restored.
Hotmail's 20 million users were only reunited with their 55 million addresses thanks to the generosity of a Linux user, Michael Chaney, who paid the renewal fee on Microsoft's behalf.
All it takes for a domain holder to miss a renewal notice is for the contact email they submitted to be no longer valid. A situation that is highly likely given MP3.coms reductions in staff.
Stupid? Nawww. Embarrasing? You betcha!
...VoGE
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VoGE
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website... |
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Hi Chris! Long time no chit chat. My fault, I'm too much a hermit.
As for your wondering about the whois listing, I didn't "buy the domain", I simply paid their bill to take it out of inactive status.
Anyone can pay any domain's renewal fees. All it takes is a valid credit card. Of course, no legal rights to the domain are conveyed to the payer. Nor was I looking for any. I just wanted the site back online ASAP.
...VoGE
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MIKE BURN Generally Crazy Guy
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droolymutt No Underblurb
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:00 pm Post subject: Re: The Artist That Rescued MP3.com's Website... |
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Listening to your "Amazing Grace", VoGE.....
simply beautiful......
I've bookmarked your page......
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
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Ted Lehman Stranger than truth?
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:38 pm Post subject: VoGE you said it |
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Quote: When was the last time ANYONE bought that much goodwill for $35 US? I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
As for your comments about me calling anyone or anything "stupid", you are sorely mistaken. This was a slip-up that could have happened to ANY company and does almost every day!
Money well spent.
You are so right that stuff like this can happen to any company any day of the week.
In my company the opperations guy sighed up all the phones to a new provider and the next thing I know my DSL service went out. He never communicated with me and we never got with my provider to change the billing. This kind of thing absolutely happens all the time. You explained it well.
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