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^This is the difficult part. But if the data is still on invisionforum servers, could there be a way to just point a separate domain DNS to the invisionforum forums?
Maybe, I emailed InvisionForum support. Without additional information, there might be a limited extent to which they can discuss pre-existing forums [though I know they were in good standing as of 6/18]
Also they have to approve authorizing additional account admins for the boards, idk how that’s done for forums where the admins are dead.
The CRS website is likely down because of DNS problems. It doesn’t look like the DNS was ever switched over to GoDaddy. Instead, it’s still on the old fabricationspecialties.com name servers. Testing this results in failed connections to those servers, so I’d start by updating the DNS in the GoDaddy account.
People are anxious, so I’ll send some snippets of the emails:
““The CRS forums can easily be brought back online, and technically they are currently online just not accessible without modifying the DNS at GoDaddy. The current issue is more of an annoyance and lack of access rather than being concerned about data loss. Thanks for your interest in this and being willing to help. I’ll let you know if there’s anything that comes up that I think you could do, but we’re currently waiting to hear back about a few details related to bank, GoDaddy, and Invision account access.””
“REDACTED is doing his best to ressurect the forum. Apparently the forum is still “live” at Innovision, but something about the DNS info is messed up at Godaddy (where CRSociety.org is hosted), so the link to the forum no longer works. REDACTED is trying to get the login credentials for our Godaddy account so he can update it, but nobody seems to have it. If nobody knows it, the CR Society needs to send an official letter (probably from REDACTED, the president) with a death certificate for (REDACTED) to get the account transferred so REDACTED can update it. REDACTED reached out to see if either somebody knows the Godaddy login or can draft such a letter.”
The problem right now is at fabricationspecialties.com which hosts the dns entries. That’s a real company with a real phone number so you might be able to talk to them about it.
“We are working through the process of transferring account ownership from a recently deceased CRS board member so we can update the DNS record. The forum itself is funded and functioning. We just need to update the DNS record to make it accessible.”
According to this thread, it’ll be a few more days. I think it’ll be up again just as soon as we get usable fusion power, which as I remember from my childhood (I’m 66) we have been assured is just around the corner. So now the question is, if we take all possible life extension measures, including rapamycin, will anybody from around here be still alive to witness that glorious event. In summary, a few more days.
