Wondered what happened to Warren?
So he’s currently a test bench at the plunger factory and I could care less???
John,
As stated …if you knock out the power grid and short out all capacitors where the site is hosted. “GONE”
I’ll go sit in my corner patiently awaiting my pony and the toothfeiry!
You think for one minute that a major host would allow a website to stay up if and when they were informed of the legal status, and reason for conviction, of the owner?
Okay.
I think I’ll go wait for the tooth fairy, too.
This is a pretty interesting thread. I would agree with what Greg says, he owns the domain name, and that’s the end of it. Whether he is dead or alive. However, I would like to know how he keeps paying for it under his circumstances. I have experienced two similar situations. The owner of our club web site, was the daughter of one of the members. She would not update the site, and would not give us the username and password to bring it up to date. She let the domain name lapse, and someone else bought it, and offered it for sale at a huge profit. So I just created a new free club website on Traniweb.org. Game over.
Second situation. I paid for my name as a domain name, but my son in law registered it to himself. Now he and my daughter have divorced. (nasty divorce). He was hosting it for free at the ISP he was working for. He has now pulled the plug on it, and now I cannot use the name and get it hosted somewhere else. Fortunately, I anticipated this, and created another site for my trains again on Trainweb. So no huge loss, except access to my personal name as a domain name.
Thank God for Trainweb. This whole domain name and hosting business can get very sticky sometimes.
Paul
Greg Elmassian said:
Mike, he has a "domain" name, and it is not illegal to own one. If you were the first to get it, you could own generalmotors.com or ibm.com .... The domain names do not automatically belong to a club or company with the same name.I could buy a domain call mikeomalley.com and I do not have to give it to you. So he has a domain name that the club likes but Warren OWNS it, no matter what he has done in life.
The right to property is protected, it’s just that Warren Mumpower OWNS the property of the domain name.
He does not own the club… hopefully I have done a better job at making a distinction between the club’s property and the property of Warren Mumpower.
Regards, Greg
Greg the Domain is not in Warrens name. He is listed as the contact and the club is listed as the owner of the domain. He should be able to get the contact changed. He will have to get who ever is hosting it to give or set up a new user name and pass word. Once that is done then its a peice of cake to fix the website.
Bob Cope said:
John,The site is registered to the Inland Northwest Garden Railroad Society, Warren Mumpower is listed as the contact. It appears from the DNS entry that Register.com is the hosting service provider.
Bob C,
John here is the answer. Inland Northwest Garden Railroad Society is the owner of the domain and Warren was just the contact. Get a hold of Register.com and find out what info you needed to get the contact changed and the new info to get to the site to up date it. It should not be that hard.
Mike, owning the domain name means you control where it points… Since the name is registered until 2012, that is not going to change for 3 years… so he may have renewed it for a number of years some time ago… names are cheap unless someone else owns it and wants it…
Now, the place it is hosted at is 216.21.239.197, and looks like an ARIN site, I hate them, they are really lousy at responding to hack attempts, etc.
There is a lock on the domain so that it cannot be changed.
Not much you can do, the rest of the information is hidden behind register.com.
I do not think you can change the owner of the domain name without going to court, and trying to say that you represent the club and the club is the owner… While it looks that way, it might not be easy at all… I am the contact for all 17 of our company’s domain names, and I would dare you to take the control away from me, even if you were the owner of the business.
Good luck, I’m definitely not on the side of Mr. Mumpower…
Regards, Greg
Members of our board has contacted Register and the process has begun.
Let’s see what happens now.
Thanks for all the input.
Hire a hacker and blast the site, as for warren paying for the site it was probably paid in advance , when I renew my company site I usually re-up for 5 years. YMMV.
This is just a hit-and-run FYI post,
Warren Mumpower was sentenced July 21st to LIFE in prison, joining the rest of his buds.
DOJ press release here:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/July/09-crm-710.html
We use real names here…or do you have something to hide ?
Him and that other dude prolly have something to hide, Friar.
We do?
Not you, Curm!
This dude: dhiraj talukdar
Isn’t it funny when a controversial way off topic thread pops up, some one posts who has never been here before. I haven’t figured that out yet.
It has to be trollers or something.
Actually it may be a search engine. Last week I had posted a question and one of the people that answered mentioned Bachmann. In three days it showed up in a google search! Them computers are smart!
I often wonder about those that hide behind a phony identity…why are they hiding…
If they do post an email addy, or a web page it does help; but I don’t correspond with anyone that is so ashamed of his/her/it’s name, that the name is not used.
It’s one good reason that I gave up on the other place.
Fred,
It would seem that there are many opinions on this subject. In principal, I agree with you. However, there are many sites, including business sites, where they prefer that ‘screen names’ be used in lieu of the real deal. I have never had an issue being me. On the ‘other’ site, I use a screen name because that is their convention, not to hide behind.
My tuppence worth.
Bob C
I don’t post much at MLS because of the screen names. When I do post there, I use my real name.
Of course, anyone could give a phoney name here. But at least I’m not addressing somebody named “Big Boy”, “Big Train Daddy”,
or some other silly name.
Ralph
Onn other sites I use GeoGeorge Its short for Geoff George. IT works as a screen name and most people figure out who I am.
So, back to the regularly scheduled program… I wonder if the “boys” managed to wrestle the domain name away from Warren yet?
Of course, there could be a small probability that I knew what I was talking about… nah!
hahahaha
Greg
edit: guess not, warren’s email address is still on the first page…
Greg,
Not yet.
I’ll let you know in 6 months or so…