Does anyone know what's going on at OnLineNIC

[DomainPairs]

They seem to have been off the air for over 24 hours with no announcements and no email response.

Have they gone bust?

 

[newnoy]

I have received this email from onlinenic.com

Dear Customer,

We are sorry to inform you that our WEB server has been attacked by somebody. Our technicicans are taking great effort in getting it solved now. Please rest assured that the problem will be solved soon.

To visit Onlinenic, would you please try it at https://www.onlinenic.com, if it still fails, please try to use the proxy server: 218.104.136.170:80 in the following way:

Go to 'Tools' in IE, choose 'Internet' , it will lead you to an interface, then choose 'Connect', click 'LAN setup', then you may set up the proxy 218.104.136.170 with the port 80.

If this proxy server doesn't work, you may try the following ones:

202.239.161.7:80
202.30.243.63:80
211.140.27.146:80
211.141.95.112:80
211.141.95.122:80
211.141.95.88:80
211.141.95.90:80
211.141.95.91:80
212.141.54.32:80


Plus, Some of the emails sent to [email protected] may have lost. If you haven't got any reply from us, please write to [email protected]. Please rest assured that we will never ingore any email reaching us.

If you have domains which are supposed to be registered urgently, please kindly offer us your id, password and the detailed whois information of your domains, we will try to help you register them here.

Please rest assured that you may feel free to change your account password after the domains have been registered sucessfully here for you.

Your kind understanding and cooperation will be highly appreciated.

Should you have further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,

OnlineNIC Customer Care

Email: [email protected]
https://www.OnlineNIC.com

 

[avs162]

wow a password request by them in email thats kind of bad practice and unusual

why might be extraordaniry circumstances the lack of a contact number for phone and the lack of verification of others recieving would make me want to hold pass until sure

just my opinion

 

[Mr Webname]

I've also received that email - I guess there's little other way of contacting me but I don't think I'd be giving over passwords at this moment in time.

[EDIT - Traceroute of 1st IP]

IP address: 218.104.136.170
No host name is associated with this IP address or no reverse lookup is configured.

TraceRoute to 218.104.136.170

Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 0 1469 1469 66.46.176.3 -
2 0 1469 1469 216.191.97.45 pos5-2.core2-mtl.bb.attcanada.ca
3 718 1469 1469 216.191.65.217 srp2-0.core1-mtl.bb.attcanada.ca
4 1454 1468 1469 216.191.65.173 pos2-1.core2-tor.bb.attcanada.ca
5 1453 1469 1468 216.191.65.243 srp2-0.gwy1-tor.bb.attcanada.ca
6 1469 1468 1469 12.125.142.5 -
7 15 735 734 12.123.5.218 gbr5-p80.cgcil.ip.att.net
8 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
9 16 1469 1468 12.123.6.37 ggr2-p390.cgcil.ip.att.net
10 719 1469 1468 208.175.10.93 dcr1-so-3-3-0.chicago.cw.net
11 1500 1469 1468 208.172.146.99 dcr1-loopback.santaclara.cw.net
12 1469 1469 1468 208.172.156.82 bpr2-so-0-0-0.losangeles.cw.net
13 797 1469 1468 208.173.55.134 china-netcom-corporation-ltd.losangeles.cw.net
14 641 734 1469 210.52.130.57 0ge1-gsr1-gz1.cncnet.net
15 1078 1468 735 210.52.131.134 1p0-gsr1-xm1.cncnet.net
16 1204 1468 1469 210.53.47.50 -
17 234 1469 734 218.104.128.42 -
18 234 250 235 218.104.136.170 -

Trace complete

Network IP address lookup:

whois whois.arin.net 218.104.136.170:



OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
OrgID: APNIC
Address: PO Box 2131
City: Milton
StateProv: QLD
PostalCode: 4064
Country: AU

NetRange: 218.0.0.0 - 218.255.255.255
CIDR: 218.0.0.0/8
NetName: APNIC4
NetHandle: NET-218-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to APNIC
NameServer: NS1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: NS.RIPE.NET
NameServer: RS2.ARIN.NET
Comment: This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database.
Comment: For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via
Comment: WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
Comment: ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry
Comment: for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks
Comment: using this IP address range and is not able to investigate
Comment: spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more
Comment: help, refer to http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse
Comment:
RegDate: 2000-12-07
Updated: 2002-09-11

OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN
OrgTechName: APNIC Whois Contact
OrgTechPhone: +61 7 3858 3100
OrgTechEmail: [email protected]

 

[DomainPairs]

I'm told that the proxies are unsecure chinese ones. I haven't tried to use them or research them, I just hope that we will get an update soon. I also suggested that they might like to set up an information board somewhere and offered to provide one if they didn't have anything available.

 

[domaindirk]

Right in the middle of transferring some domains! Now I the new owners are wanting their domains and OnlineNIC.com goes dead.

 

[domaindirk]

Email returned "undeliverable" from OnlineNIC.com. Hope I have not lost some domains that have been "sold", and was in the process of transferring. AAARRRGGGHHHH.

 

[hiOsilver]

Received email from Onlinenic saying their system was working again. I checked, and it is.