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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   11 Oct 17:54 
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I'm trying to transfer my last domain away from 123-reg before it renews, but their shitty reset password page isn't working for me. :(

I have a hunch it's just broken on my end (and am hoping that the login page isn't), but I don't have time to start experimenting at the moment, so if someone doesn't mind going to https://www.123-reg.co.uk then Control Panel and requesting a password reset for 123reg[at]bpsite.co.uk that would be excellent.

Oh, and please post here if you do - whether it works or not - otherwise they might get lots of requests from disparate IPs and block my account for protection or something. :S

Thanks.

 
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 From:  koswix   11 Oct 19:58 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      2 of 14 
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Done.

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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   11 Oct 21:31 
 To:  koswix      3 of 14 
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Thanks, the email came through. Hopefully the rest of the process works now...
 
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   11 Oct 22:14 
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FFS! Resetting the password worked, but logging in doesn't. :@

Oh, and the expiry date is tomorrow - I thought it renewed one month in advance - and I don't have valid payment details stored. :(

To make it more fun, this domain is the one all my email goes through...

 
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   11 Oct 22:50 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      5 of 14 
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I managed to get in, and it does have my new card details, despite me not providing them. :/

It also says transfer would take 5-7 days which is bullshit, but since expiry/renewal date is sooner than I thought I guess I'll have to let it renew (at twice the price I would otherwise pay), and then do the transfer afterwards.

Trying to look on the bright side, it could be worse, but still fucking frustrating.

 
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   12 Oct 12:03 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      6 of 14 
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The Domain system should be administered by an international non-profit NGO and not farmed out for ISPs to abuse at will.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   12 Oct 13:11 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      7 of 14 
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Yeah, I've just been pondering the absurdity of paying so much for essentially a fraction of a kilobyte.

And using complex bloated buggy JS interfaces for something that underneath is relatively simple.

An international non-profit that provided a lightweight flexible API would be great, although perhaps only a partial solution.

 
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   12 Oct 20:10 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      8 of 14 
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I've been thinking about just using an IP address. We barely ever type them in anyway.
 
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   13 Nov 17:34 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      9 of 14 
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A month ago I had a half-formed response to that, and decided to let it to coagulate before responding.

Except it didn't.

My thoughts were in the region of...
* Kinda cool as a protest against DNS, so long as a provider can guarantee a static address.
* There's still enough offline/verbal interaction for it to be impractical for many.
* I might have had a third point, but if so I forgot it. :(

 
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   14 Nov 01:54 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      10 of 14 
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I've since had a "better" idea. We stop using DNS and, instead, just maintain a hosts file that we all share.
 
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   14 Nov 18:19 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      11 of 14 
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I was thinking about when websites didn't need their own domains, and instead we joined neighbourhoods, and had curated directories which were more useful than searching.

Then I followed a rabbit hole and discovered NeoCities.

 
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   15 Nov 04:19 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      12 of 14 
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Aware of Neocities! A friend uses it for his website.

Also, what I suggested is pretty much how name resolution worked on the early internet. And this woman was responsible for maintaining the hosts file.
 
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   15 Nov 04:21 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      13 of 14 
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Also there are still tilde servers. Where you get a home directory and can serve pages from ~/username/ like back in the olden days.
 
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   15 Nov 10:53 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      14 of 14 
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There might be a bandwidth issue because everything is super lofi. Only use case I can come up with is under the radar stuff.

I'll allow it has a certain janky charm.
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