Help! dnscentral off the air??

gortrobot · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 2

dnscentral.com, a webhost and domain registrar that has been associated with lockergnome for many years, has been off the air and inaccessiblle since sometime this morning. anybody out there know what's going on??

lildschwarz · Joined: Jun 08, 2004 Posts: 2

Site seems to have been down since about noon yesterday (03/06). Email and website forwarding are accordingly down.

According to WHOIS here's the contact information;

Registrant:
Daze Networks, Inc.
P.O. Box 6511
Huntington Beach, CA 92615
US

Domain name: DNSCENTRAL.COM

Administrative Contact:
Support, DNS dns.RemoveThis@dnscentral.com
P.O. Box 6511
Huntington Beach, CA 92615
US
1.949.215.3105
Technical Contact:
Central, DNS dns.RemoveThis@dnscentral.com
P.O. Box 6511
Huntington Beach, CA 92615
US
888.679.3759

Registration Service Provider:
DNS Central
http://www.dnscentral.com
This domain registration may be managed at
https://dnscentral.securenow.com/managedomain.cgi

Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 05-Sep-2006.
Record expires on 06-Sep-2007.
Record created on 07-Sep-1997.

Domain servers in listed order:
DNS2.DAZE.NET
DNS1.DAZE.NET

There's also this post from Google Groups.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.misc/browse_thread/thread/635...ed4410e

Seems people know about it since the DNS Central voicemail is full.

lildschwarz · Joined: Jun 08, 2004 Posts: 2

Seems that service is restored as of 2:30 PM EST on 03/07/07.

I'd be curious to see how long it takes for the archived email to come rolling in.

gortrobot · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 2

yes, my email is back up as well. I think the fate of the interupted incoming mail is in the hands of the original sending email server, and whether it is still trying to send or has given up. I've received a few, but I thin not all that were missed so far.

Thanks for your responses.

cawagne · Joined: Jun 07, 2007 Posts: 1

I have been using DNSCentral for years (probably since it first appeared in Laockergnome). They have always been slow to respond, but they eventually get there. Recently, however, I have had a fairly urgent need (meaning I needed to get it done in less than TWO WEEKS) to get a domain name transferred into its own account.

Multiple emails to DNSCentral. No response.

Multiple voicemails to DNSCentral. No response.

Now their mailbox is full. This has gone one for over 12 days. Does anyone know what is up with their service? How are they still in business?

On that note, at this point I need to transfer my domain names out of there and get them somewhere where I can actually get something done. Anyone have any suggestions for managing domain names?