{"id":351,"date":"2009-06-13T23:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/?p=351"},"modified":"2009-06-17T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T06:32:02","slug":"bloggerunitedcom-down-will-it-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/2009\/06\/13\/bloggerunitedcom-down-will-it-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggerunited.com down &#8211; will it return?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Jess' blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/jess\/\">Jess<\/a> asked me what was going on with <a title=\"Blogger United\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggerunited.com\">bloggerunited.com<\/a> yesterday, as there&#8217;s currently only a domain-parking page there. I had a quick search online, and found <a title=\"LithiumMind BloggerUnited.com down\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lithiummind.net\/2009\/05\/bloggerunitedcom-down.html\">LithiumMind&#8217;s blog that suggested it was suffering from bandwidth exhaustion<\/a> last month. I often wondered how much bloggerunited was paying for bandwidth, as they must have used an awful lot!<\/p>\n<p>The HTTP 509 (did you know <a title=\"HTTP 509 at wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#5xx_Server_Error\">509 is not an official status code<\/a>?) that LithiumMind saw has gone now, replaced by a domain parking page:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_352\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggeruniteddomainparking.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-352\" title=\"BloggerUnited.com Domain Parking page\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggeruniteddomainparking.jpeg\" alt=\"BloggerUnited.com Domain Parking page\" width=\"401\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggeruniteddomainparking.jpeg 401w, https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggeruniteddomainparking-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BloggerUnited.com Domain Parking page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A domain parking page is bad news &#8211; who would use a webhost that displayed their own ads on your domain when you exceeded your bandwidth limits? That would be very cheeky! Perhaps whois can tell us a little more though. Whois is a tool that you can use to look up ownership, lease start \/ end, registrar info etc. For bloggerunited.com I see this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_353\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggerunitedwhois.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"size-full wp-image-353\" title=\"Whois bloggerunited.com - expired?\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggerunitedwhois.jpeg\" alt=\"Whois bloggerunited.com - expired?\" width=\"391\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggerunitedwhois.jpeg 391w, https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bloggerunitedwhois-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whois bloggerunited.com - expired?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aiyah! Jess won&#8217;t be happy &#8211; bloggerunited.com was one of her favourite sites! See that &#8216;Expires On: 09-Jun-09&#8217;? We can only hope that there&#8217;s been a bit of an &#8216;admin oversight&#8217; and the site will be back up soon.<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody know the bloggerunited.com owner? Is it a brief holiday, or has the project run its course? I&#8217;d love to be able to tell Jess!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update 17th June &#8211; seems like it could return, according to rei&#8217;s tweets it&#8217;s a credit card issue: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rei99\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/rei99<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess asked me what was going on with bloggerunited.com yesterday, as there&#8217;s currently only a domain-parking page there. I had a quick search online, and found LithiumMind&#8217;s blog that suggested it was suffering from bandwidth exhaustion last month. 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