Domain name investigations…

Well, I think I have determined why eking.isfat.info no longer seems to work… I decided to look into the domain isfat.info (the domain I sub domain off of) and found some interesting information the first place I looked. And where was the first place I looked you ask? Well I decided to do a WHOIS lookup over at dnsstuff, a nice place I discovered when I still worked for VIA. Here is what I found:

Domain ID:D6370443-LRMS
Domain Name:ISFAT.INFO
Created On:13-Sep-2004 03:55:28 UTC
Last Updated On:13-Sep-2005 01:18:01 UTC
Expiration Date:13-Sep-2005 03:55:28 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R124-LRMS
Status:HOLD
Status:PENDING DELETE RESTORABLE
Status:OK
Registrant ID:C5787124-LRMS
Registrant Name:Tyler Morgan
Registrant Street1:5 Homestead Lane
Registrant City:Robesonia
Registrant Postal Code:19551
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.6102071285
Registrant Email:tytanic11@gmail.com
Admin ID:C5787124-LRMS
Admin Name:Tyler Morgan
Admin Street1:5 Homestead Lane
Admin City:Robesonia
Admin Postal Code:19551
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.6102071285
Admin Email:tytanic11@gmail.com
Billing ID:C5787124-LRMS
Billing Name:Tyler Morgan
Billing Street1:5 Homestead Lane
Billing City:Robesonia
Billing Postal Code:19551
Billing Country:US
Billing Phone:+1.6102071285
Billing Email:tytanic11@gmail.com
Tech ID:C5787124-LRMS
Tech Name:Tyler Morgan
Tech Street1:5 Homestead Lane
Tech City:Robesonia
Tech Postal Code:19551
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.6102071285
Tech Email:tytanic11@gmail.com
Name Server:NS1.AFRAID.ORG
Name Server:NS2.AFRAID.ORG

Now this WHOIS look up tells us a lot of information, mainly who the registrant (owner of the domain) is and all sorts of neat things about him in relation to the domain. The part that is actually relevant here the following lines:

Expiration Date:13-Sep-2005 03:55:28 UTC
Status:HOLD
Sponsoring Registrar:R124-LRMS
Status:PENDING DELETE RESTORABLE

What this tells us is that the owner of this domain (Tyler Morgan) only has the rights to it through September 13, 2005 and that whomever the registrar (company the site is registered through) is has placed the the domain on hold pending deletion. So, what this means is that any data sent to or from the domain isfat.info (and all subdomains like mine) is not actually being processed through. Instead we get errors.

This just tends to me more towards the idea that maybe I need to get my own domain name. I am just not sure if I have the the few extra dollars a year lying around.