# Rubyonrails.org domain grabbed?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 20, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299 "2008-04-20T22:33:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/1 "2008-04-20T22:33:39Z")

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Erm, is it just me, or has [rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org) just been grabbed? I get a  
typical traffic grabber / placeholder page, and NetSol whois doesn’t  
look good either …

Jan

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/2 "2008-04-20T22:42:35Z")

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Yeah, I just noticed this as well.

You can still get the ruby docs at: [RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/core/)

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/3 "2008-04-20T22:45:32Z")

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Eh, if so, DHH can just sue for trademark violation and get it back.  
But that’s weird. 🙂

–Jeremy

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Jan-Christian F.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Erm, is it just me, or has [rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org) just been grabbed? I get a  
> typical traffic grabber / placeholder page, and NetSol whois doesn’t  
> look good either …
> 
> Jan
> 
> >

–  
[http://jeremymcanally.com/](http://jeremymcanally.com/)  
[http://entp.com](http://entp.com)

Read my books:  
Ruby in Practice ([Ruby in Practice](http://manning.com/mcanally/))  
My free Ruby e-book ([http://humblelittlerubybook.com/](http://humblelittlerubybook.com/))

Or, my blogs:

> **[Site not found · DreamHost](http://mrneighborly.com)**
>
> The owner of this domain has not yet uploaded their website.

[http://rubyinpractice.com](http://rubyinpractice.com)

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/4 "2008-04-20T23:00:16Z")

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I thought I’m doing something wrong, so I tried it several times  
before going to groups to check out.  
I bet it’ll be back in quite a bit, in the meantime run `gem server`  
then point your browser to localhost:8808 to have at least rdoc on  
your hands.

On Apr 20, 11:33 pm, Jan-Christian F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/5 "2008-04-20T23:00:51Z")

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and the .com, .net, etc. works.

–Jeremy

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:59 PM, lq [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > Erm, is it just me, or has [rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org) just been grabbed? I get a  
> > typical traffic grabber / placeholder page, and NetSol whois doesn’t  
> > look good either …
> > 
> > Jan

–  
[http://jeremymcanally.com/](http://jeremymcanally.com/)  
[http://entp.com](http://entp.com)

Read my books:  
Ruby in Practice ([Ruby in Practice](http://manning.com/mcanally/))  
My free Ruby e-book ([http://humblelittlerubybook.com/](http://humblelittlerubybook.com/))

Or, my blogs:

> **[Site not found · DreamHost](http://mrneighborly.com)**
>
> The owner of this domain has not yet uploaded their website.

[http://rubyinpractice.com](http://rubyinpractice.com)

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/6 "2008-04-20T23:33:40Z")

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Well, at least I’m not the victim of some nefarious DNS spoofing 🙂

> and the .com, .net, etc. works.

Funny, I never tried those - thanks.

> If someone updated it a  
> bit late the bad records might stay in dns caches for a few hours.

I just found a Google cached version of the whois info, and the owner  
info apparently hasn’t changed, so it looks like you’re probably right.

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/7 "2008-04-20T23:07:18Z")

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On Apr 20, 10:00 pm, “Jeremy McAnally” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> and the .com, .net, etc. works.
> 
> –Jeremy  
> Looks ok now (at least it does over here). By the looks of it the  
> domain would have expired on the 19th april, 22:40 UTC (anniversary of  
> first registration). The record now shows an expiration date of 19th  
> april 2009 (and updated only a few hours ago). If someone updated it a  
> bit late the bad records might stay in dns caches for a few hours.

Fred

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/8 "2008-04-21T01:55:46Z")

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Hello all,

On 4e$B7ne(B21e$BF|e(B, e$B8aA0e(B6:33, Jan-Christian F.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> > and the .com, .net, etc. works.
> 
> Funny, I never tried those - thanks.

Aha .com seems to work, but not .net for me.

> > If someone updated it a  
> > bit late the bad records might stay in dns caches for a few hours.
> 
> I just found a Google cached version of the whois info, and the owner  
> info apparently hasn’t changed, so it looks like you’re probably right.

I think [rubylang.org](http://rubylang.org) has been grabbed by domain reseller 2 days ago…

Temporarily I worte following line in my /etc/hosts.  
But I need to transit to [rubyonrails.com](http://rubyonrails.com) if no way to tack back .org?

* * *

## 70.84.143.109 [www.rubyonrails.org](http://www.rubyonrails.org) [api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org) [lists.rubyonrails.org](http://lists.rubyonrails.org) [dev.rubyonrails.org](http://dev.rubyonrails.org) [wrath.rubyonrails.org](http://wrath.rubyonrails.org) [wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org)

I checked by following;

sugi@gust:~% dig a [rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org) @dns1.name-  
[services.com](http://services.com).

; \<\<\>\> DiG 9.4.2 \<\<\>\> a [rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org) @dns1.name-services.com.  
;; global options: printcmd  
;; Got answer:  
;; -\>\>HEADER\<\<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1792  
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; QUESTION SECTION:  
;[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:  
[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). 1800 IN CNAME  
[slotmatched.demandmedia.com.edgekey.net](http://slotmatched.demandmedia.com.edgekey.net).

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:  
[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). 3600 IN NS [dns1.name-services.com](http://dns1.name-services.com).  
[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). 3600 IN NS [dns2.name-services.com](http://dns2.name-services.com).  
[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). 3600 IN NS [dns3.name-services.com](http://dns3.name-services.com).  
[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). 3600 IN NS [dns4.name-services.com](http://dns4.name-services.com).  
[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org). 3600 IN NS [dns5.name-services.com](http://dns5.name-services.com).

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:  
[dns1.name-services.com](http://dns1.name-services.com). 3600 IN A 69.25.142.42  
[dns2.name-services.com](http://dns2.name-services.com). 3600 IN A 216.52.184.248  
[dns3.name-services.com](http://dns3.name-services.com). 3600 IN A 63.251.92.200  
[dns4.name-services.com](http://dns4.name-services.com). 3600 IN A 69.64.145.225  
[dns5.name-services.com](http://dns5.name-services.com). 3600 IN A 70.42.37.7

;; Query time: 114 msec  
;; SERVER: 69.25.142.42#53(69.25.142.42)  
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 21 07:50:48 2008  
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 298

sugi@gust:~% whois [rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org)  
\<Snip…\>  
Domain ID:D104247687-LROR  
Domain Name:RUBYONRAILS.ORG  
Created On:19-Apr-2004 22:40:29 UTC  
Last Updated On:20-Apr-2008 18:08:51 UTC  
Expiration Date:19-Apr-2009 22:40:29 UTC  
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)  
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED  
Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD  
Registrant ID:5B0454A82930DA57  
Registrant Name:Next Angle  
Registrant Organization:Next Angle  
Registrant Street1:Frederikssundsvej 34, 4. C  
Registrant Street2:  
Registrant Street3:  
Registrant City:K?benhavn NV  
Registrant State/Province:  
Registrant Postal Code:2400  
Registrant Country:DK  
Registrant Phone:+45.18776779327  
Registrant Phone Ext.:  
Registrant FAX:  
Registrant FAX Ext.:  
Registrant Email:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
Admin ID:00998EC4E4EB5584  
Admin Name:Customer Service  
Admin Organization:BuyDomains.dk, LLC  
Admin Street1:19380 Collins Ave #202  
Admin Street2:  
Admin Street3:  
Admin City:Sunny Isles Beach  
Admin State/Province:Florida  
Admin Postal Code:33160  
Admin Country:US  
Admin Phone:+1.3059354775  
Admin Phone Ext.:  
Admin FAX:  
Admin FAX Ext.:  
Admin Email:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
Tech ID:00998EC4E4EB5584  
Tech Name:Customer Service  
Tech Organization:BuyDomains.dk, LLC  
Tech Street1:19380 Collins Ave #202  
Tech Street2:  
Tech Street3:  
Tech City:Sunny Isles Beach  
Tech State/Province:Florida  
Tech Postal Code:33160  
Tech Country:US  
Tech Phone:+1.3059354775  
Tech Phone Ext.:  
Tech FAX:  
Tech FAX Ext.:  
Tech Email:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
Name Server:DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM  
Name Server:DNS2.NAME-SERVICES.COM  
Name Server:DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM  
Name Server:DNS4.NAME-SERVICES.COM  
Name Server:DNS5.NAME-SERVICES.COM  
Name Server:  
Name Server:  
Name Server:  
Name Server:  
Name Server:  
Name Server:  
Name Server:  
Name Server:

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/9 "2008-04-21T02:03:22Z")

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sorry all,

On 4e$B7ne(B21e$BF|e(B, e$B8aA0e(B7:55, sugi [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I think [rubylang.org](http://rubylang.org) has been grabbed by domain reseller 2 days ago…

It’s my miss.  
I intented to wirte “[rubyonrails.org](http://rubyonrails.org)” not [rubylang.org](http://rubylang.org).

## Thanks,

Tatsuki S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid), [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jan-Christian\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jan-Christian_F)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-domain-grabbed/135299/10 "2008-04-21T05:00:27Z")

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Same thing happened here (in China), and Time.now = “Mon Apr 21  
10:59:10 +0800 2008”

On Apr 21, 4:33 am, Jan-Christian F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)