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Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 11 Apr 2018 20:38
by Gowermick
I’ve used the “who do you think you are” forum for some years, but trying to log in today, I’m told the site no longer exists!
Anyone else experiencing this?
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 11 Apr 2018 21:01
by AdrianBruce
The site is down for me but it's always been a bit flakey every so often - over Easter it hit too many SQL somethings (to be technical about it
) and then wouldn't work. We wait with bated breath....
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 11 Apr 2018 21:02
by AdrianBruce
And I hope there was nothing significant about the above being my 666th post!
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 12 Apr 2018 07:03
by Gowermick
Adrian,
I think this is diferent from normal, as my ISP is telling me that the webaddress is not recognised. If it was normal maintenance or the like, I’d have expected a ‘web address not responding’ type of message, and not a ‘web address does not exist’ message.
I wonder if they forgot to renew their domain name registration
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 12 Apr 2018 07:28
by Tony Jones
There was a new post on their FaceBook page in the last day, and no mention if any problems. You get lots of warnings before DNS expires, I suspect this is a technical issue somewhere
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 12 Apr 2018 07:30
by Tony Jones
I’ve sent them a tweet. No news on their feed
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 12 Apr 2018 08:32
by David2416
Tried the mobile site just now m.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com seems to be working but some links are broken? Maybe a server issue.☹
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 12 Apr 2018 09:06
by tatewise
According to
https://www.whois.net/ their domain registration does not expire until
2018-08-12 but there are some Prohibitions:
Domain Name: WHODOYOUTHINKYOUAREMAGAZINE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1565364489_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.lexsynergy.com
Registrar URL:
http://www.lexsynergy.com
Updated Date: 2017-07-13T22:41:52Z
Creation Date: 2009-08-12T11:40:30Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2018-08-12T11:40:30Z
Registrar: LEXSYNERGY LIMITED
Registrar IANA ID: 1466
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
abuse@lexsynergy.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +442031370459
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited
https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 12 Apr 2018 10:55
by Gowermick
Panic over, site back up and running!
Re: Demise of who do you think you are magazine?
Posted: 12 Apr 2018 11:58
by Tony Jones
They did put a few updates on their twitter feed - these things happen all the time!