Afternic.com for sale? - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**think** · 03-22-2004, 08:11 PM

Must be someone having fun but at 7:09 pm CST 3/22/04 it shows afternic.com with a for sale landing page:

www.Afternic.com

**domaindirk** · 03-22-2004, 08:22 PM

Anyone know what has happened to Afternic? You bring up the site and get "Afternic.com is for sale". All various links lead to this page.

Thanks,
DD

**Peace** · 03-22-2004, 08:23 PM

I noticed that too..may be it was hacked

**NameTower** · 03-22-2004, 08:28 PM

must be.

**clemzonguy** · 03-22-2004, 08:30 PM

Maybe they are hoping to liquidate and get out while they can before Verisign's new brainchild namestore takes over the world!!! *EVIL LAUGH*

**nameslave** · 03-22-2004, 08:37 PM

Threads MERGED. Thanks.

**domaindirk** · 03-22-2004, 08:50 PM

Good, quick work on the threads!

**Nodnarb** · 03-22-2004, 09:02 PM

Looks like their DNS system is messed up...

Had an offer at 6pm, and can't respond to it...

:(

**Nexus** · 03-22-2004, 10:03 PM

I agree that it must be DNS/Web Server related. They allow people to set up "for sale" pages by assigning them to their nameservers. It's easy for some schemes to swallow up things they aren't supposed to, by error.

~ Nexus

**NameTower** · 03-22-2004, 11:58 PM

http://afternic.com works
http://www.afternic.com doesn't

seems all URLS using the www don't work..

**spietreser** · 03-23-2004, 02:27 AM

Looks like they fixed this.

**willing2sell** · 03-23-2004, 04:46 AM

Is there still a problem?
When I go to login at Afternic a security box comes up saying "The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site".

**Nodnarb** · 03-23-2004, 07:38 AM

As of right now, it still comes up with the sale page when I use www.afternic.com. Without the www will bring up the home page but then you get certificate problems when you try to log in. Something weird is still going on...

**NameTower** · 03-23-2004, 08:25 AM

**Nodnarb** · 03-23-2004, 09:20 AM

Glad to know it wasn't a security issue...