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  • 09/08/2009 at 2:02 pm #1728831
    gotta run

      Anyone able to get to a geochecker link lately? I’m getting “account suspended” errors on any link. And no, I don’t mean “I’m locked out,” I mean the geochecker service might have gotten pulled???

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      09/08/2009 at 3:01 pm #1913901
      Cachelovskys

        I get the same thing. This could be a headache.

        “Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.” Sounds like someone isn’t paying their bills. Luckily, I only have a couple of caches that would need to be changed.

        09/08/2009 at 3:11 pm #1913902
        -cheeto-

          FYI, This has happened in the past…

          I believe Groundspeak “owns” the domain name if I am not mistaken and/or took over some portion of ownership on geochecker.

          It came back after a similar error within a day or 2. I wouldn’t jump to changing everything just yet.

          09/08/2009 at 3:26 pm #1913903
          gotta run

            I prefer to go with the “sinister plot” theory.

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            09/08/2009 at 4:58 pm #1913904
            Team Deejay

              Perhaps a bit of confusion here. Evince (the other geochecker) is owned by a volunteer reviewer in Texas. I don’t believe geochecker is associated with Groundspeak in any way. Maybe time to switch checkers?

              @-cheeto- wrote:

              FYI, This has happened in the past…

              I believe Groundspeak “owns” the domain name if I am not mistaken and/or took over some portion of ownership on geochecker.

              It came back after a similar error within a day or 2. I wouldn’t jump to changing everything just yet.

              09/08/2009 at 5:54 pm #1913905
              -cheeto-

                WHOIS info on the domain name geochecker.com shows that in fact Groundspeak owns the Geochecker.com domain name:

                Registrant:
                Groundspeak
                PMB 321
                24 Roy St
                Seattle, WA 98109 4018
                US

                Registrar: 000DOM
                Domain Name: GEOCHECKER.COM
                Created on: 26-JUN-06
                Expires on: 26-JUN-11
                Last Updated on: 22-JUL-09

                Administrative, Technical Contact:
                Administrator, Groundspeak
                Groundspeak
                PMB 321
                24 Roy St
                Seattle, WA 98109 4018
                US
                206-405-1945

                Domain servers in listed order:
                RPNS3.DAILYRAZOR.COM
                RPNS4.DAILYRAZOR.COM

                09/09/2009 at 12:36 pm #1913906
                gotta run

                  Seems to be back up now. I’ve heard…ah…from someone…that…ah…they might be limiting attempts to 5 now rather than 10…not that we’ve ever run across that situation…uhhh…I just heard about it from a friend of mine. 😳

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                  09/09/2009 at 1:04 pm #1913907
                  cheezehead

                    This is one that I been using and haven’t had any problems.http://geocheck.org/index.php

                    09/09/2009 at 2:53 pm #1913908
                    -cheeto-

                      I find it interesting that Groundspeak seems to recognize the importance of these tools by apparently purchasing the domain name of one but not incorporating the function into their primary “product”.

                      It sure would be nice to just have a puzzle checker built into the publish function. Radio button for checker Y/N. No HTML to code. No additional steps. Just choosing whether to include it or not in the cache page. Perhaps even at the waypoint level if a puzzle has multiple points to “check”.

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                      09/09/2009 at 3:28 pm #1913909
                      gotta run

                        @-cheeto- wrote:

                        I find it interesting that Groundspeak seems to recognize the importance of these tools by apparently purchasing the domain name of one but not incorporating the function into their primary “product”.

                        Given how buried this ownership is (most wouldn’t know to check the whois DB, and there’s no ownership link on the checker page itself), and the fact that the contact link takes you to a user web page for “Goldenhawk,” we can only guess at the reasons for this…

                        Maybe they just bought the domain ownership from the developer to protect their interest in a popular site?

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