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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 09:08 PM UTC
Now this is something completely different. Trying to check modelingmadness.com, it now leads to "Willamette Valley Hospice".
(That should be wvh.com....)
What's going on, anyone else experiencing the same phenomenon?
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 09:21 PM UTC

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Now this is something completely different. Trying to check modelingmadness.com, it now leads to "Willamette Valley Hospice".
(That should be wvh.com....)
What's going on, anyone else experiencing the same phenomenon?


Yup. And the ARC home page is empty. Perhaps the Interweb is finally eating itself...
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 01:34 AM UTC
Yep - same 2 problems here in Australia, and Scale Model World site has also been disabled.

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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 05:23 AM UTC
That "disabled" message could be the result from many a thing, like the domain registration expiring, but the address leading to a whole different site smells like cyber squatting. But I can't think of a Hospice squatting on a modeling site. Or perhaps they've grasped the fact that modelers are ageing...
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 05:39 AM UTC
Hmmm, the site "half" comes up for me. Some broken images and links now, so only half.
I'm guessing more human error at the server site, but could be wrong...
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 05:40 AM UTC
It could also be a case of hackers causing mischief.
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 06:16 AM UTC

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Hmmm, the site "half" comes up for me. Some broken images and links now, so only half.
I'm guessing more human error at the server site, but could be wrong...

Indeed, now it loads the right site, but partially.
Makes me suspect of a hacker attack too, looks like they're getting the site back up.
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 08:06 AM UTC
intresting news, I have been noticing a couple of "other" sites disappering,strange to hear of same problems on other "domains" of the net, could be that the net is getting overloaded, could be hackers,or other reasons....
Guess we will be hearing from it quick if it spreads, I hope not

greetz Tha Pit
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 03:16 PM UTC
I got it OK, with February 12 2004 being the last date stamp.
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 09:15 PM UTC

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I got it OK, with February 12 2004 being the last date stamp.

Oh, I didn't notice the date at all...

"What's new" doesn't seem to work, but most of the links on the front page do, like the review section.
Some people just don't seem to have proper hobbies and get their kicks from vandalizing sites. Like digitaldioramas.com, offline because of vandals hacking the forums.
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Posted: Friday, May 30, 2008 - 02:36 PM UTC
The site is RTS, date stamp: 30 May 2008
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