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Every year another Doom birthday rolls by and reminds me of the same thing: I never actually launched the project I started five years ago with @textfiles.com Today, I finally fix that.

unemployedswe.bsky.social

@unemployedswe.bsky.social

14 Jan

Is this site still up? Chrome says "... refused to connect". Some site checkers say it's up, while others say down - e.g. issitedown.net?check=doomsc... says it gets a 521 response.

issitedown.netIs doomscroll.cx Down? - Website Status CheckCheck if doomscroll.cx is down or up. Real-time website status monitoring with global server testing. Fast, reliable results.

James Baicoianu

@bai.dev

14 Jan

Site's still down, Christmas Island NIC seized the domain and has been incommunicative. I'm working on some improvements to the site to make it clear to casual observers that we aren't violating anyone's copyrights and the site is legit before relaunching with a new domain. bsky.app/profile/bai....

James Baicoianu@bai.dev

Merry Christmas to me. doomscroll.cx domain was suspended due to some failed ICANN verification process. Working on getting it back online.

doomscroll.cxdoomscroll.cx

James Baicoianu

@bai.dev

The reason the site checkers disagree about whether it's up is that the domain seizure redirects to a page about ICANN verification failure, but that site is only hosted on http:// and not on https:// - so if you load doomscroll.cx you get content, but not if you load doomscroll.cx

doomscroll.cxContact Verification Suspension PageThis domain has a pending ICANN verification and is suspended.

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James Baicoianu

@bai.dev

14 Jan

The website claims I failed to verify my ICANN email and that my registrar just needs to resend the email, but my registrar says that the domain has been placed on hold and that only cxDA (Christmas Island Domain Administration) has the ability to fix it, and they're ghosting me

unemployedswe.bsky.social

@unemployedswe.bsky.social

14 Jan

To be fair, some of the doom npc's can be described as vaguely goat-like - and cxDA is probably still traumatized over a certain infamous goat site that was hosted under .cx 😵‍💫 If you know what I refer to, I'm sorry - and if you don't, for your own mental health, Do. Not. Search. For. This.

unemployedswe.bsky.social

@unemployedswe.bsky.social

14 Jan

aha, I had seen that site verification thing earlier (with curl?) - but didn't remember what I'd done differently.