[geeks] LART! (Was: RE: Please contact us (fwd))

[Kris Kirby]

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:08:42 -0600
From: Guity Party <editor at dumb-dot.com>
To: Registrar Contact <admin at never-down.net>
Subject: RE: Please contact us

Thanks, RC. I will call $CUSTOMER today and see if we can get it going. I
did submit a request for transfer again after that and hopefully someone
can do the "OK" when it shows up. Thanks for your detailed response.
Have a good week. I will keep you posted on the transfer.

Can't Read / Dumb-dot.com

-----Original Message-----
From: RC [mailto:admin at never-down.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 4:24 AM
To: Can't Read
Cc: $CUSTOMER
Subject: Re: Please contact us

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Can't Read wrote:
> We will need your assiance in transferring the domain
> "www.$CUSTOMER.com" to our registrar, www.$HOSTING-SERVICE.net and then
> to our servers here , ns1.dumb-dot.com and ns2.dumb-dot.com. The
> ISP that is shown on the WHOIS record does not respond, the email
> address for the owner/admin conact "bademail@$CUSTOMER.com" is
> invalid since the ISP is no longer active, phone calls there to the
> Technical Contact get "disconnected" message !

[bademail was an order on my desk when I pulled my stuff out of the
company's building. The phone number in question was dead one month before
the company's demise; it's only there because I forgot to update his
domain information.]

Yet, strangely enough, the email address "hostmaster at old-ISP.com" is
still vaild, and this avenue was not taken.

[Also, www.old-ISP.com has a contact number that can be reached.]

It would be cheaper NOT to transfer the domain; OpenSRS can *easily* be
updated to current information without added expense. You should look
into it.

> Since you are, we assume, the original registrar entry point, please
> let us know how to get the records changed. If you make me the Technical
> Contact, we can handle the rest.

Sure, have $CUSTOMER page me @ $NUMBER or $OTHER_NUMBER. I'd talk with him
about it and commit the changes ASAP.

> My email is dumbass at dumb-dot.com . We at Dumb Dot.COM will be building
> a website for Mr. $CUSTOMER, and hosting it. There is some urgency due
> to brochures he is printing for his ($BIZ) practice right now. If you
> would like to call me I am at the office today, call $LONG-DISTANCE.

If you want to get real sick about it, I can pull ("slave") the zone from
your servers as soon as I get a confirmation from $CUSTOMER. Our DNS
servers are $IP1 and $IP2. That'll give him / you a 24-48 hour jump on the
registrar's updates.

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Kris Kirby
<kris@$OTHER-EMAIL.com>
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OTHER-EMAIL Network Operations Support

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Grrr! I just want to reply to his email with a few comments along the
lines of "Didn't listen, did you?" and "You're a fucktard." I mean, he
*obviously* has no clue about how these things work and couldn't fix
anything if he wanted to....

Should I? :) (I've never seen a case more deserving.)

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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
<kris at nospam.catonic.net>   |
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