Hi guys,
I'm the owner of Pokerhand.org. Just posted this in the Internet forum, might as well share it here too:
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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