# What's wrong with the Giraffe Board?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 2, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228 "2011-03-02T16:51:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/1 "2011-03-02T16:51:04Z")
I know **Giraffe** and various other posters besides myself still hang out here, too, so…
I tried to go to my bookmark for Giraffe Board right now and got one of those “Welcome to blahblah…come see what other websites you can go to and who have paid us to feature their link on here right now” pages.
Did you forget to pay the GoDaddy bill again, **Giraffe**?
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/2 "2011-03-02T17:00:11Z")
Try [this address.](http://64.57.208.241/index.php)
The main site address appears to have gone offline due to the domain name expiring (that usually happens on the anniversary/birthday of the site).
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/3 "2011-03-02T17:03:46Z")
Thanks, **Idle**!
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/4 "2011-03-02T17:05:52Z")
grumble.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/5 "2011-03-02T17:12:17Z")
Thanks, **Idle**!
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/6 "2011-03-02T17:15:15Z")
No problem. I, myself, learned about that link from **CatInASuit** , so I can’t take credit for knowing about it…just passing it along.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/7 "2011-03-02T17:31:55Z")
Yes, sorry about that everybody, it looks like there was a mix-up with our host and our domain was allowed to expire. I’ve got a support ticket into URLjet and hopefully it will be resolved soon.
In the meantime, anyone who wants to access the site (i.e. pervs) should use the IP link provided by **Idle** and **CatInASuit** :
[http://64.57.208.241/index.php](http://64.57.208.241/index.php)
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/8 "2011-03-02T17:39:02Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
>
> Yes, sorry about that everybody, it looks like there was a mix-up with our host and our domain was allowed to expire. I’ve got a support ticket into URLjet and hopefully it will be resolved soon.
>
> In the meantime, anyone who wants to access the site (i.e. pervs) should use the IP link provided by **Idle** and **CatInASuit** :
>
> [http://64.57.208.241/index.php](http://64.57.208.241/index.php)
So, is that the Giraffe Boards version of “the Winter of Our Missed Content” ? 😃
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/9 "2011-03-02T17:50:51Z")
Well phooey. I forgot my password and when I click the link for forgotten passwords, I get taken back to that odd site.
I need my Raffer fix!!! How am I supposed to start my day without the critter cam???
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/10 "2011-03-02T17:55:39Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> Well phooey. I forgot my password and when I click the link for forgotten passwords, I get taken back to that odd site.
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> I need my Raffer fix!!! How am I supposed to start my day without the critter cam???
PM me (here) what you’d like your password to be and I’ll reset it for you.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/11 "2011-03-02T18:23:06Z")
FYI, the domain registration has been sorted out. There will probably be a lag while it repropagates the DNS info, but I’m guessing it will be back to normal for most people within a couple of hours.
Sorry to all affected, I hope you found a suitable replacement forum to make fart jokes in during the outage.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-giraffe-board/573228/12 "2011-03-02T22:01:17Z")
Since this has been resolved, I’m going to close this thread.