# Giraffe Board is down
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 1, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441 "2012-03-01T14:06:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/21 "2012-03-02T15:47:14Z")
Maybe locking yesterday’s thread was a bit premature … Did the registry expire this time? Redirects to some add ;-/
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### Author:  [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/22 "2012-03-02T15:48:19Z")
Looks like a domain parking thing. I hope somebody didn’t grab the domain…
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### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/23 "2012-03-02T15:50:28Z")
> [@THespos](#):
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> Looks like a domain parking thing. I hope somebody didn’t grab the domain…
Ack … is that, well, ack I hope not …
What are your thoughts Thespos? Think someone did?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/24 "2012-03-02T15:55:07Z")
> [@Oliveritaly](#):
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> Maybe locking yesterday’s thread was a bit premature …
Looks like. I merged the threads and reopened.
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### Author:  [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/25 "2012-03-02T15:57:51Z")
I dunno. I’m only speculating, but didn’t Giraffe say something about urljet having some issues and that many of their sites were affected? Maybe the script kiddie messed with urljet’s DNS server or something. Again, just speculating.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/26 "2012-03-02T16:03:36Z")
> [@THespos](#):
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> I dunno. I’m only speculating, but didn’t Giraffe say something about urljet having some issues and that many of their sites were affected? Maybe the script kiddie messed with urljet’s DNS server or something. Again, just speculating.
It’s a reasonable supposition, but I don’t think they’re related. We’ve had this problem with URLjet before: they seem to have something mixed up in their automatic domain renewal billing system for us. Not sure how many tries it’s going to take them to fix it, but it’s getting old.
On the plus side, I was able to sign up for a free credit report for only $19.95 a month so now nobody can rip me off.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/27 "2012-03-02T16:05:27Z")
> [@Ponder\_Stibbons](#):
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> Thank you SDMB for being a temporary haven for us Gweebers. I’ll try not to get stains on the furniture.
Ok, but try not to drop any vulgar terms for lady bits behind the sofa while you’re here. 😉
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### Author:  [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/28 "2012-03-02T16:11:06Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
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> We’ve had this problem with URLjet before: they seem to have something mixed up in their automatic domain renewal billing system for us. Not sure how many tries it’s going to take them to fix it, but it’s getting old.
Conceivably, it could be their parking page. If it were my site, I’d demand a percentage of the Google revenue, then blow it all on beer. Just sayin’.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/29 "2012-03-02T16:14:58Z")
OK, the domain has supposedly been renewed: it usually takes some time to propagate, but it should be up for everyone shortly.
Impatient types can use this url to get there immediately: [http://199.193.246.43/](http://199.193.246.43/)
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### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/30 "2012-03-02T16:41:28Z")
Did you invite that smug chick with the perky boobs to join, mod even?!?!?
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/31 "2012-03-02T17:00:03Z")
> [@Oliveritaly](#):
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> Did you invite that smug chick with the perky boobs to join, mod even?!?!?
Rebo? She’s already a mod. 😕
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/32 "2012-03-02T17:10:13Z")
😉
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### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/33 "2012-03-02T17:42:27Z")
Well done sir. Well done.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/34 "2012-03-03T05:00:59Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
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> It’s a reasonable supposition, but I don’t think they’re related. We’ve had this problem with URLjet before: they seem to have something mixed up in their automatic domain renewal billing system for us. Not sure how many tries it’s going to take them to fix it, but it’s getting old.
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> On the plus side, I was able to sign up for a free credit report for only $19.95 a month so now nobody can rip me off.
They must be giving you a sweet deal if, after messing up like this twice, you’re still doing business with them.
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### Author:  [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/35 "2012-03-03T06:23:28Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> They must be giving you a sweet deal if, after messing up like this twice, you’re still doing business with them.
At least he’s not serving up malware.
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