13-09-2002 15:25									#1
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The CivFanatics website and forums are down. I went to CFC this morning and have gotten a 404 error message. Then I went to www.civfanatics.net and found there network status has been updated:

quote: The CivFanatics.com site and forum are temporarily not accessible due to a domain problem. We expect to fix the problem within 2 days. Sorry for the inconvenience. ~ Thunderfall

Anyone who goes to the CFC is going to expect the site to be down within 2 days.

	13-09-2002 15:42									#2
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...and posters on that site used to criticise Apolyton for being unreliable

	13-09-2002 15:59									#3
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I wonder if they're really sorry for the inconvenience, or if deep down, they couldn`t really give a ****?

	13-09-2002 16:17									#4
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2 days!!! Jesus, how did they manage to cook up a domain problem anyway?

	13-09-2002 16:23									#5
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And the reason for why CFC is down, is that they seem to have forgot to renew their domains each 2 years as their registration period is set to.

The domain civfanatics.net has already expired, but it looks like they have a temporary agreement with their registrar.

quote: Record expires on 09-10-2002 Record created on 09-10-2000

And the civfanatics.com domain has been locked as a precaution for domain hijackers

quote: Status: PROTECTED Note: To help prevent malicious domain hijacking and domain transfer errors, the registrar has protected the registrant of this domain name registrant by locking it. Any attempted transfers will be denied at the registry until the registrant requests otherwise. The registrant for the name may unlock the name at any time at the current registrar in order for a transfer initiation to succeed.

The conclusion is that they have either run out of cash or they have had a dispute with RegisterFly.com.

The information was gathered from the public WHOIS records.

	13-09-2002 16:25									#6
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BTW, there's no more clues out there, so we can only wait or bug Thunderfall for more details.

	13-09-2002 17:00									#7
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I have no problem accessing the site

	13-09-2002 17:53									#8
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Yes, true, you can access civfanatics.net, but I already stated that in my post.

	13-09-2002 18:59									#9
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That's a college boy for you. They always seem to think that some exam that will determine the rest of their life is more important than some web pages and a forum.

Last edited by Lefty Scaevola on 13-09-2002 at 19:08

	13-09-2002 19:04									#10
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Thanks for the clear perspective, Lefty.

We need to remember that for TF, CFC is his avocation, not vocation. I would guess that Real Life reared its ugly head at a bad time, and the result is: "oops!"

	13-09-2002 19:44									#11
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I spoke with Thunderfall last night, while the site was active, he had no choice, it was NOT his error, it was an admin error on their end.

	13-09-2002 20:07									#12
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I never noticed that it was down

RAH

	13-09-2002 20:20									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Chris 62 I spoke with Thunderfall last night, while the site was active, he had no choice, it was NOT his error, it was an admin error on their end.

Well, I'm at least glad to hear that TF didn't mess up, even accidentally. Now we can blame *them*.

	13-09-2002 22:47									#14
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Noooo! Not again! What about the Firaxis Chat??

	13-09-2002 22:51									#15
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Thank you for the update, I vist two other Civ sites regularly, and that is one of them.

	13-09-2002 23:00									#16
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A little while ago both CivFanatics and Apoyton were down and there was going to be a Firaxis Chat at CivFanatics today.

Happy Friday the 13th.

	13-09-2002 23:09									#17
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The Chat might still be on.

	13-09-2002 23:21									#18
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I am assuming (hoping!) the chat is still on. After all, the #civfanatics chat room is not directly tied to CFC.

It will, however, leave out those who only join the chat via the java client at CFC.

	13-09-2002 23:26									#19
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So how would you get to it?

	13-09-2002 23:48									#20
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Use a chat client (mIRC, Trillian, others)

Set it to use site irc.webmaster.com, using port 6667.

Supply a nickname, and connect.

then join the chat: "/join #civfanatics"

	14-09-2002 00:01									#21
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euh, how do you you're in the right room??

	14-09-2002 00:03									#22
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I still do not understand why it needs 2 days to solve this problem.

BTW : Nice to see some acquaintances here.

	14-09-2002 00:41									#23
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[edit: link is dead now. ]

Last edited by germanos on 14-09-2002 at 02:06

	14-09-2002 01:50									#24
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Well, its nice to see people are worried!

	14-09-2002 02:24									#25
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Well, it is upsetting me no end for it to be down. I am participating in a Successoin Game - Training Day game -and I want to get back there.

By the way, why doesn't Aployton have Training Day games?????????????

sboog

	14-09-2002 02:26									#26
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quote: Originally posted by sboog Well, it is upsetting me no end for it to be down. I am participating in a Successoin Game - Training Day game -and I want to get back there. By the way, why doesn't Aployton have Training Day games????????????? sboog

I suggest you try to start one, I don't think anyone here has bothered.

	14-09-2002 02:56									#27
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Does anyone know what time the chat is supposed to start??

	14-09-2002 03:57									#28
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btw: if anyone wants to know:
the chat was canceled

	14-09-2002 08:43									#29
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5 posts shy of 2000 and civfanatics has to go down!


No matter, no matter I know of another civilization III site that is very close to the action...

	14-09-2002 08:48									#30
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hmmm. What to do without CFC? I think I will go out and do something...