Afternic.com for sale?

think · Mar 22, 2004

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 · Mar 22, 2004

:-O 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 :worried:

Peace · Mar 22, 2004

I noticed that too..may be it was hacked

NameTower · Mar 22, 2004

must be.

clemzonguy · Mar 22, 2004

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

Anthony Ng · Mar 22, 2004

Threads MERGED. Thanks.

domaindirk · Mar 22, 2004

Good, quick work on the threads!

Nodnarb · Mar 22, 2004

Looks like their DNS system is messed up...

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

Nexus · Mar 22, 2004

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 · Mar 22, 2004

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

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

spietreser · Mar 23, 2004

Looks like they fixed this.

willing2sell · Mar 23, 2004

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 · Mar 23, 2004

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...