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Re: Where did freeipdb IP utility site go?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (randal k)
Fri Jul 27 00:09:58 2007

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:07:27 -0600
From: "randal k" <nanog@data102.com>
To: "Brian Raaen" <braaen@zcorum.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200707250812.36953.braaen@zcorum.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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Incredibly enough, I contacted the maintainer about this a while ago. Here
is the cut & paste:

Looks like we forgot to renew the domain registration.  I was leaning
towards the idea of moving it to something like sourceforge, but I wanted to
clean up some things first.

The page is available at:
  http://home.globalcrossing.net/~freeipdb/

-monte


On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:36:52PM -0700, Randal Kohutek wrote:
> FreeIPdb -
> It seems like freeipdb.org is now owned by a domain squatter or
> something similar. Do you guys still have the code running around
> somewhere? I found some of it on archive.org, and would like to mirror
> it or something, as I like the product and work at a datacenter that can
do that kind of thing.
>
> Please let me know!

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On 7/25/07, Brian Raaen <braaen@zcorum.com> wrote:
>
>
> I was trying to investigate some the ip management tools and followed the
> link
> www.freeipdb.org and was more than a little upset with what I found.  This
> domain name apparently has been taken by a porn site that is wanting to
> auction it off.  does anyone know if the project died or if it changed
> domain
> names.
>
>         I have removed the reference to it in the wiki page, but there are
> other
> references to the site on the NANOG site.  I am not sure who will need to
> remove the links, but they no longer point to an ip management tool.
>
>         If the utility still exist I would be intersted in finding it, as
> I saw not
> able to dig it up on a quick Google search.
> --
> Brian Raaen
> Network Engineer
> braaen@zcorum.com
>

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Incredibly enough, I contacted the maintainer about this a while ago. Here is the cut &amp; paste:<br><br>Looks like we forgot to renew the domain registration.&nbsp; I was leaning towards the idea of moving it to something like sourceforge, but I wanted to clean up some things first.
<br><br>The page is available at:<br>&nbsp; <a href="http://home.globalcrossing.net/~freeipdb/">http://home.globalcrossing.net/~freeipdb/</a><br><br>-monte<br><br><br>On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:36:52PM -0700, Randal Kohutek wrote:
<br>&gt; FreeIPdb -<br>&gt; It seems like <a href="http://freeipdb.org">freeipdb.org</a> is now owned by a domain squatter or <br>&gt; something similar. Do you guys still have the code running around <br>&gt; somewhere? I found some of it on 
<a href="http://archive.org">archive.org</a>, and would like to mirror <br>&gt; it or something, as I like the product and work at a datacenter that can do that kind of thing.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Please let me know!<br><br>##################################################################################
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Raaen</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:braaen@zcorum.com">braaen@zcorum.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I was trying to investigate some the ip management tools and followed the link<br><a href="http://www.freeipdb.org">www.freeipdb.org</a> and was more than a little upset with what I found.&nbsp;&nbsp;This<br>domain name apparently has been taken by a porn site that is wanting to
<br>auction it off.&nbsp;&nbsp;does anyone know if the project died or if it changed domain<br>names.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I have removed the reference to it in the wiki page, but there are other<br>references to the site on the NANOG site.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am not sure who will need to
<br>remove the links, but they no longer point to an ip management tool.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If the utility still exist I would be intersted in finding it, as I saw not<br>able to dig it up on a quick Google search.<br>--<br>Brian Raaen
<br>Network Engineer<br><a href="mailto:braaen@zcorum.com">braaen@zcorum.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br>

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