pokerhand.org domain swiped?
 

what happened here? someone forget to renew the domain? this sucks!!!

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sucks indeed

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Yeah someone forgot to pay $25 to renew lol

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anyone know who owns it?

for some reason i thought it was a 2+2er that bought it from someone.

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JayP and Hawk are former owners; not sure who actually owns it now.

lol @ domain swiping

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The weird thing is though, it was working the other day right? Usually when a domain expires, it takes like a month or two before someone else can buy it, I remember letting one expire and it went past a few weeks so I had to pay an extra $75 "redemption fee" or something on top of the price. So I wonder if that page showing is the registrar and they can still renew it, or if something weird happened.

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I ran a whois, that's not the registrar man, it's some guy. It doesn't take a month or two, it's a one-day thing.

I wonder if they will buy the domain back or maybe set it up somewhere else, I had too many hands posted!

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It seems to have been swiped by some guy in Norway...

I wonder how much he will try and sell it back for?

__________________________________
Domain ID:D104455463-LROR
Domain Name:POKERHAND.ORG
Created On:24-May-2004 17:06:23 UTC
Last Updated On:25-May-2007 15:13:44 UTC
Expiration Date:24-May-2008 17:06:23 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:A2BCB4FA5FF37B65
Registrant Name:Thomas Mathiesen
Registrant Organization:PokerHand.org
Registrant Street1:Guldhaugsletta 29
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Skjetten
Registrant State/Province:NA
Registrant Postal Code:2013
Registrant Country:NO
Registrant Phone:+1.4799031205
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:[email protected]
Admin ID:A2BCB4FA5FF37B65
Admin Name:Thomas Mathiesen
Admin Organization:PokerHand.org
Admin Street1:Guldhaugsletta 29
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Skjetten
Admin State/Province:NA
Admin Postal Code:2013
Admin Country:NO
Admin Phone:+1.4799031205
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:[email protected]
Tech ID:A2BCB4FA5FF37B65
Tech Name:Thomas Mathiesen
Tech Organization:PokerHand.org
Tech Street1:Guldhaugsletta 29
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Skjetten
Tech State/Province:NA
Tech Postal Code:2013
Tech Country:NO
Tech Phone:+1.4799031205
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:[email protected]

Re: pokerhand.org domain swiped?
 

Sigh. I tried to post a hand just now, so sad. I want the 3 mins of my life back by giving the benefit of the doubt that pokerhand just did a bad redesign 2+2 style while trying to find the real way to post a hand. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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that norway guy is the owner and creator lol

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That's strange, I know an IT geek, who's norwegian, and has that exact name..

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that norway guy is the owner and creator lol

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Correct, the same as Rakerebate.net. He sold it and bought it back a couple of years ago from what I understand. I'm guessing there is a DNS problem.

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that norway guy is the owner and creator lol

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QFT

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that norway guy is the owner and creator lol

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Yes:

Admin Name:Thomas Mathiesen

That's Hawk. So, it hasn't been stolen.

Re: pokerhand.org domain swiped?
 

So where's a comparable alternative?

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The weird thing is though, it was working the other day right? Usually when a domain expires, it takes like a month or two before someone else can buy it, I remember letting one expire and it went past a few weeks so I had to pay an extra $75 "redemption fee" or something on top of the price. So I wonder if that page showing is the registrar and they can still renew it, or if something weird happened.

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exactly what happened to me too -- usually your hosting plan or registrar will put up a "dummy" page of their own for a week or two after it expires during which u can still save the site for yourself before it can be swiped by someone else. give it a few days.

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I ran a whois, that's not the registrar man, it's some guy. It doesn't take a month or two, it's a one-day thing.

I wonder if they will buy the domain back or maybe set it up somewhere else, I had too many hands posted!

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You're wrong. After a domain expires it goes into a 40 day grace period where the original owner still can renew it before it goes back on the orginal market. Even after the 40 days, it goes into a "deletion" mode and can actually be up to 75 days after expiration before anybody else can buy it.

Most likely what happened is he had it registered with registerfly.com who is currently being shut down by ICANN and nobody can renew their domains there. It's a long story and a real mess. Most likely he won't be able to have that domain name for a few months, if that.

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So where's a comparable alternative?

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handposter.com

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So where's a comparable alternative?

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You can use http://www.liquidpoker.net , it even has some kind of automatic calculator for each street

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But only for holdem. :|

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Handposter.com has omaha & holdem

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Greetings from the Norway guy :-)

Just for the record, the situation with the domain had nothing to do with me not being able to pay for 10 bucks [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I sent out an email to all registered players earlier, but some of you might not have seen it so I will post it here as well:

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Dear poker player,

As you may have noticed, Pokerhand.org has been down since friday. Our registrar RegisterFly.com went out of business and chose not to renew any domains hosted with them. This happened without our knowledge and they did not inform any of their customers of the situation.

Currently over 2 million domains were registered by RegisterFly, so all over the web people have problems with this registrar. We have been trying to get the domain back up since friday without success. We have tried emailing them as well as InterNic and ICANN without a response from either parties.

However today the situation changed, GoDaddy.com (another registrar) decided to buy RegisterFly and their customers. We've been assured by GoDaddy that they will resolve the situation either tonight or tomorrow. Here are an announcement from ICANN explaning the sitatuion:
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-29may07.htm

So rest assure, we are coming back. We do have other good news as well, in the past two months we have been developing a new hand history parser for the website and the new parser will be released shortly after the site is back up.

Features supported by the new parser are:
- Pot sizes for FullTilt, PartyPoker and Pokerstars
- Automatic odds calculations when posting a hand
- More forum friendly output hand view (like the bison converter)
- Hand replayer (in co-op with highstakesdb.com)
- and more..

Thanks for being patient with us. We've been here since 2004 and we are here to stay!

Kind regards,
Thomas Mathiesen
Pokerhand.org founder

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Then a little over 2 hours later the domain is rightfully mine again, and it's up and running as before.

I also sent out a new email, here's a copy:

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Hi all,

Well, it didn't take long after the last email I sent out to you guys.

Pokerhand.org is now back up, some might still have to wait for nameservers to update in order to access the site, but most users will be able to visit the site now.

I would just like to repeat what I wrote in my previous email in regards to the new hand history parser which will be launched this week:

Features supported by the new parser are:
- Pot sizes for FullTilt, PartyPoker and Pokerstars
- Automatic odds calculations when posting a hand
- More forum friendly output hand view (like the bison converter)
- Hand replayer (in co-op with highstakesdb.com)
- and more..

Thanks again for your patience.

Kind regards,
Thomas Mathiesen
www.pokerhand.org

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PM me if you have any questions.

Thomas

Re: pokerhand.org domain swiped?
 

Thank God Godaddy.com is handling the registerfly domains. I have a couple of domains at regfly that have been in limbo the past month. I'm glad your site is back now too.

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woooo hoooo!! back in business!!1

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clark, thank you for providing us with this service. Your site is way better than any other handposter.

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Wow. We had a ton of problems with RegisterFly awhile back. We finally had enough of them and their BS and switched registrars.

One horror story- We had email through RegFly as well. One day we go to the webmail login page and the whole login page is in Arabic. We call RegFly to see WTF is up and they say that it's something with our browser settings. Lol, ok.

Then they say that in order to fix it, they have to delete everything(saved emails, folders, email lists, unanswered emails, etc etc) and start a new one. F no we said.

Finally after a few days of pretty much non-stop calls to them and us going irate, we get someone on the phone who starts laughing and says- "Oh, I think someone here was playing a joke", and within the hour they finally changed the language from Arabic back to English.

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Hmm, I never got either of those emails...