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Community => Adventure Related Talk & Chat => Topic started by: MrColossal on Wed 22/03/2006 20:37:46

Title: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: MrColossal on Wed 22/03/2006 20:37:46
Anyone know what happened to the underdogs?

Looks like they forgot to pay a bill, this is most unhappy!
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Sektor 13 on Wed 22/03/2006 20:46:41
Yes, very strange.

I must say that i HATE when some well known site gets replaced with some bullshit like "buissines search", "book search"... kind of garbage. >:(
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Dr. Scary on Wed 22/03/2006 21:08:35
Exactly the same happened with Underdogs a couple of years ago. They forgot to pay the bill and someone snatched theunderdogs.org, forcing them to change to the-underdogs.org
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Esseb on Wed 22/03/2006 21:11:10
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Regarding the current unavailability of the site:

Sarinee Achavanuntakul, in a rare public appearance in IRC, related that this problem is due to credit card details, and the domain would be working soon. In the meantime, the site is accessible at http://209.120.136.195/

What did we do before Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Underdogs)?
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: lo_res_man on Wed 22/03/2006 21:24:34
we were howling savages, poking at computers rising from the primordial quickly soaring into the sky as the supreme information resource in the infosphere! or something like that :P
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: HillBilly on Wed 22/03/2006 21:46:54
Well it seems to be back now. Looks like we can breathe again.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Ashen on Wed 22/03/2006 21:51:11
Not for me, it isn't.
I noticed yesterday that the RON bit was down, but the main site seemed fine. Now I guess that's gone too. Think they'll be able to get theunderdogs.org back now?
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: MrColossal on Wed 22/03/2006 22:03:45
I guess I could also have read about it on her personal blog!

http://www.fringer.org/

But hooray that it's back, but the game I was looking for isn't on there!
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Nikolas on Wed 22/03/2006 22:33:17
What were you looing for, Eric?
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Gilbert on Thu 23/03/2006 01:26:44
Oh no, my homepage is down also. :P
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: The Ivy on Thu 23/03/2006 01:35:01
This confirms my theory that the internet is in fact a vast shapeshifting ocean, and no two sites are in the same place twice.  There go my chances of finding the grail.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: edmundito on Thu 23/03/2006 01:37:33
omg ags forums are down too! ¬¬
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Trumgottist on Thu 23/03/2006 14:14:09
My site is up, and has been for a long time.  ;D
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: MrColossal on Thu 23/03/2006 15:37:37
Quote from: Nikolas on Wed 22/03/2006 22:33:17
What were you looing for, Eric?

Time Killers. A very dumb 2d fighting game... Don't bother looking for it for me, I don't care anymore, just talking to someone at work about personally definitive 2d fighters from our youths.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Radiant on Thu 23/03/2006 15:44:07
Sarinee is awesmoe! I hope she gets her domain name back soon, it would be really nasty for some advert-operant to steal it again.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: The Inquisitive Stranger on Thu 23/03/2006 22:17:52
You know, from the title of this thread, I thought HOTU had produced a Canadian counterpart.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 24/03/2006 03:18:03
/me likes the fact that people thought his previous post was irony, but it wasn't, since his homepage was hosted by UD also. :=
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: DeviantGent on Fri 24/03/2006 13:10:21
Yarrrgh! Come back RON! I have things to add to you...
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Trumgottist on Fri 24/03/2006 14:50:22
* Trumgottist finds it weird that people are hosted by the slowest server on the web. Surely there must exist better options?
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Radiant on Fri 24/03/2006 15:01:05
Quote from: Trumgottist on Fri 24/03/2006 14:50:22
* Trumgottist finds it weird that people are hosted by the slowest server on the web. Surely there must exist better options?

Well, it IS quite the honor to be hosted by HOTU and Sarinee. I wish she would host my games as well.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Nine Toes on Mon 27/03/2006 08:58:06
I went to Underdogs site just now, and it seems to be down, yet again... or did I miss something?
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: seaduck on Mon 27/03/2006 11:46:29
It seems the domain is still unavailable. Use http://209.120.136.195/ instead.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Mr Jake on Mon 27/03/2006 14:34:39
Seems you cant download, though
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: seaduck on Mon 27/03/2006 15:34:43
I think that is because HOTU checks whether the Referer field of the HTTP request is http://www.the-underdogs.net/ ... or something. You would need to use a modified web client, or a (modified?) anonymizer, GET it manually using a telnet client, etc. to work around the problem.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Dr. Scary on Wed 19/04/2006 22:00:50
Since the situation is unaltered still I though I would just link you on to the workaround (http://209.120.136.195/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45992&sid=307e0d6855614784ed7cb98e171b90aa) posted on the HOTU forums.

Direct link to the RON page (http://209.120.136.207).
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: voh on Thu 20/04/2006 16:17:33
http://www.the-underdogs.info is the new domain name, and it works for me. There's supposed to be trouble with that domain name, so let me know whether it works for you.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: on Thu 20/04/2006 16:18:39
Cannot find server, for me. Using MyIE2.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Ishmael on Thu 20/04/2006 17:16:44
Works fine, using Maxthon (a.k.a. MyIE2)
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: on Thu 20/04/2006 17:25:36
Grrrrrrrr! I don't know what's going on with this stupid PC. I can't even load Google.
Yet these pages load, and so do other random ones I type.

Edit, tried it with Firefox and this time I got:

Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.the-underdogs.info.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Ishmael on Fri 21/04/2006 00:18:07
Sounds like a connection issue... Something hogging bandwidth, and/or DNS broken.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 21/04/2006 02:17:08
Haha great, at least my homepage works now.
Title: Re: Home of the Underdogs, eh?
Post by: voh on Sat 22/04/2006 00:56:52
The problem seems to be that the original HOTU domain name has been paid, but there was an issue with Underdogs's credit card/email combo. Something like that, anyway. 's been a while since I spoke to her and I can't find the email detailing it.

Register.com foobarred that up, but naievely, she registered the .info domain with register.com, and it's not working as it should. So yeah. But she is working on it - she's just on a business trip atm, and after faxing her data over twice in 3 weeks time, and not getting it sorted is frustrating. So yeah.

's what I know.