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Nov 14, 2009 | 01:24 PM

robby

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website problems

can anyone help with a problem i've been having for the past couple of days?

When trying to get to certain websites (scoobynet was 1 until today?) i get the internet explorer cannot display the webpage
I've been using the websites for several years with no problems and can't recall altering any settings

I've deleted temp files/ cookies/ recent/ etc and even restored to a previous point (a week ago) but nothing has helped

any ideas?

thanks

Nov 14, 2009 | 01:44 PM

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From: The Great White North

I would take a guess those sites were all owned by Internet Brands, which is the company that owns ScoobyNet. Why do I say this? Because IB have been experiencing severe network problems and their own site and those they hosted were inaccessible for the past couple of days.

Nov 14, 2009 | 02:21 PM

robby

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ah - how do you know if the sites are owned by IB?

thanks

Nov 14, 2009 | 03:19 PM

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From: The Great White North

I think the IB website might list all the sites they own, but not being able to get onto the IB website doesn't help much

Wikipedia's article on IB lists some of the sites, so I tried getting onto those listed and could not.

I also used the "whois" command in unix (I think dos should have this as well). For scoobynet I entered whois scoobynet.com and whois returned the following:

Code:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

   Domain Name: SCOOBYNET.COM
   Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
   Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
   Name Server: DNSCDC.CARSDIRECT.COM
   Name Server: DNSLA.CARSDIRECT.COM
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Status: clientRenewProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Status: clientUpdateProhibited
   Updated Date: 10-jul-2008
   Creation Date: 06-dec-2003
   Expiration Date: 06-dec-2011

>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:14:33 UTC <<<

< snip > - Edited out lots of compliance info text

Registrant:
   Domains by Proxy, Inc.
   DomainsByProxy.com
   15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
   Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
   United States

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: SCOOBYNET.COM
      Created on: 06-Dec-03
      Expires on: 06-Dec-11
      Last Updated on: 10-Jul-08

   Administrative Contact:
      Private, Registration  SCOOBYNET.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
      Domains by Proxy, Inc.
      DomainsByProxy.com
      15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
      Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
      United States
      (480) 624-2599      Fax -- (480) 624-2598

   Technical Contact:
      Private, Registration  SCOOBYNET.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
      Domains by Proxy, Inc.
      DomainsByProxy.com
      15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
      Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
      United States
      (480) 624-2599      Fax -- (480) 624-2598

   Domain servers in listed order:
      DNSCDC.CARSDIRECT.COM
      DNSLA.CARSDIRECT.COM

That's a lot of info! The bit of interest is the last portion the Domain servers bit. I knew that CarsDirect was a forum owned by IB, so I did the same whois on them and the Domain Servers portion returned the same info. What I then did was a whois on another forum I was having problems with (britishexpats.com). I wasn't sure at the time if that was an IB site, seems it is though, going from the domain server record which is:

Code:

 Domain servers in listed order:
      DNSCDC.INTERNETBRANDS.COM
      DNSLA.INTERNETBRANDS.COM

I did the same whois on a few other sites listed in the wikipedia entry, for example corvetteforum.com and again the domain servers were as above, so I new they were IB sites. All of the sites I tried I could not access and all of them were owned by IB.