PS: Alarmist, before I got way sidetracked, the question I was going to ask is do you think LinkedIn wants all this stuff to:

a) Sell all this info, if in bulk or individually?
b) Let the Feral Gov't have it in return for favors?
c) Diligently try to make sure Indian scammers don't get your info?

Multiple answers are acceptable.

PS: "Apparently it was OK to create an account back then, but now they want to harvest all sorts of PII on its victims… users."

Yes, Alarmist, I'm running into this trying to nix a parking ticket. (The freaking meter had yellow showing in the mechanism because it doesn't work - I even tried with a dime.) The black guy had already printed the thing up - in the system. I had to go down there but still get told I have to write an email.

Well that is bunk, but how does it apply to what you wrote? See, I don't want to fill up my new email addresses (proton.me) with SPAM, so I just now got a new one for this kind of bureaucratic stuff. Proton.me wants to send a code to another email address. That's fine, but for some reason this time for the first time I've seen, it can't be another proton acct. OK, I went to tutamail. This worked, but talk about getting the run-around... considering if I rode my bike today, I wouldn't have gotten the bogus ticket!

PS

I had a similar issued with LinkedIn … they locked me out of my acccount, which I stopped using perhaps a decade ago. I found this out because I wanted to delete it. They demanded the government ID to let me back in (I hadn’t even mentioned the deletion to that point, just access). Apparently it was OK to create an account back then, but now they want to harvest all sorts of PII on its victims… users.

PS: Good morning, Achmed!

𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑖𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡...
Yeah, not for awhile anyway.

𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑎𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦...
This is the only reason you will have to deal with this situation at all. Unless I'm mistaken, you will have to get godaddy to unlock your domain before you can transfer it to a different registrar. Fortunately, you have some time.

ICANN should, in theory, have the most up to date whois info. It does seem like the info has propagated. I checked four or five different whois search websites and all of them showed the 2027 date.

Thanks for the link to Mr. Hail's comment. I'm going to go check it out. Hope you have a great day...

Happy Wednesday! ☮️

PS: Thank you, Jim. Yeah, on-again-off-again, that's gotta be annoying, but this time it was about at least getting some words in, in case the site was just plain wiped.

I'll explain within a post today, but I didn't want to get into the detail of "it's the URL" (that is, the website name as registered) because some bad actor - you know like Sean Penn or something* - might have decided to go ahead and register it right after it was no longer mine. Just in case, again.

I will say that my friend thought I was lucky to have this URL available way back when I got it. As some here may have seen from Mr. Smith's links or pasted in here, that was in '13. I didn't do anything with it for 2 years, then for 1 year or so, I'd just mess with it, and finally the last month or so I tested what I had and went live late Nov. of '16. (No, of course it shouldn't take that long!) Keep in mind though, that the GoDaddy prices for everything were about an order of magnitude lower - it didn't matter too much, spending a couple of hundred bucks over those 3 years.

About that too, for the first 2 - 3 renewals for me, the GoDaddy cross-trained sales/technical guys (those White un-D.I.E. guys) would work with me, give me deals, tell me that there are deals I might want, whatever. Over the last few years, they've raised the prices significantly every time, and I guess the algorithms, but at least the people, must figure an existing customer gets NO BREAKS.


* "Bad actor" is in use all over the place for "bad guy". I don't particularly like the term.

PS: "Yes. I would think. But, you know... Clown World. But surely there is a way. Kill 'em with kindness and remind them that you don't want to be part of their next data breech. Maybe that will help.(?) Good luck!"

Well, it looks like I'll not have to do that, and, if PS is still running 2 years hence, and my lazy ass hasn't moved everything to another hosting company, I should have NO complaints then. (Sometimes I still do ...)

Interestingly, when I use whois, I still get that expiration of 2 days back, but your link to the real deal, the ICANN, shows that peakstupidity.com is good for 2 more years for me, as you wrote here.

That's a relief, anyway. I'll put a post up later today.

Here's the link to that one comment (there are others) by Mr. Hail on women v men at the workplace - geared toward the corporate world workplace at least:

From 1.4 days ago:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/isteve-open-thread-14/#comment-7361445

PS-
Not really sure where things are at right now. Hope this gets resolved, but...if I don't hear from you again Achmed, please take care, have a wonderful life and know that you have given many conservatives hope in this slightly-better-but-still-pretty-freaky world we live in. You have a gift that is appreciated by many. And, to one degree or another, the same is true of all the regular commenters I've encountered here. Best wishes to you all!

Jim

PS: Mr. Hail,

Httrack downloaded 3,460 items, totaling 201.9 MB (208.9 MB on disk) into the images directory.

But what's different? ☮️

PS: A quick clarification...

𝐼𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙. 𝑃𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦.

By it I mean httrack. I ran the command:

httrack https://peakstupidity.com/

from the command line and it filled a directory with what is supposed to be peakstupidity.com

I'll check it out and report back. Cheers! ☮️

PS: Great news, everyone!

𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑠.𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝐼 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒...
https://i.ibb.co/d0kyzF0K/ICANN-Lookup.jpg

Looks like you figure correct. New expiration date: 2027-10-27

So that's pretty cool. I figured it might take a little while (even up to 24 hours?) to propagate through the whois system. Apparently, it happened pretty fast.

I recaptured a mirror of PS using wget without the --no-parent option looking for the other 4 image files and there was no difference. 9,315 items and 3456 images. A site capture with wget takes ~25 minutes.

I'm also trying httrack. So far it has been running for two and a half hours.(!) Currently at 11,210 items. But many of those are .tmp files so who knows how many I'll end up with. Right now, without seeing the finished product, it looks like wget is a better tool for mirroring a website. (In all fairness, I just ran it without any options. It looks like a powerful tool. Perhaps I just don't know how to use it properly.)


𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑀𝑟. 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 #14 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑.

Please do. I'm not sure which comment you're referring to.


𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜.?
Yes. I would think. But, you know... Clown World. But surely there is a way. Kill 'em with kindness and remind them that you don't want to be part of their next data breech. Maybe that will help.(?) Good luck!

Oh look. Httrack finished. About two hours and forty minutes. 9.340 items totaling 336.7 MB (I wonder what's different.)

I guess I'll go check that out and I'll see ya later! ☮️

PS: "It's a shame that you can't get those helpful White guys from a couple years back (when you had the web cache settings problem) on the phone. I bet they could clear this up."

That's for sure. They sounded NOTHING like the D.I.E. crowd on the website... weird... OK, I wrote about that. Anyway, I might see what I can do one more time, before that URL thing becomes an "issue", oh, and check with my bank - if I did pay though, whois.com ought to reflect that right away, I figure.

Maybe, I'll use take that tack you brought up, that "I'm not comfortable" with giving them ID for that reason, and can we just figure something out. (After, all, I DO still know that old phone number too, but it was never good for sending a code to. Shouldn't a few things like this be enough info.? Do they want business or not? See, that's the difference between the White guys and the others - the former actually care about the big picture of what GoDaddy makes money doing.

That last thing hearkens to a comment Mr. Hail made on the iSteve thread #14 today. I can link you to if if your interested.

PS: Good afternoon, Achmed!

𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑔...

Oopsie... Sorry 'bout that. If there is anything too sensitive, please memory hole it.

𝐺𝑜𝐷𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡...

It's a shame that you can't get those helpful White guys from a couple years back (when you had the web cache settings problem) on the phone. I bet they could clear this up.

Anyway... I hope you have a wonderful afternoon and evening! ☮️

https://tinyurl.com/ywcj9bvr

(Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.) Cheers! ☮️

PS: That make me feel very good about having had the website, SafeNow. Thank you. "Having had" doesn't imply anything in particular here - still working on this but not frantically.

PS: I was trying not to let that particular cat out of the bag, Adam, hence my writing "for reason". That is all correct, and I think your ideas are good - I could link a dot-net or whatever, true. I will need to find out when I can get that URL on my own from Bluenote (just my first choice, but it doesn't have to be them). However about GD releasing it, that gets to the same problem - they don't want to know who I am... now I got that song in my head.

GoDaddy has refused to acknowledge that a guy with his account number who knows his email address - the one that I can't get into - might be the guy with the account. Not enough info. Granted, with the account number I could see that email address on that one page so that'd be no more good additional proof. However, I could also come up with that old phone number, but see, without the competent smart White guys, you're gonna get the usual ass-covering and non-helpful CS people.

So, I cannot get GoDaddy to release anything, tell me anything... well, I can go check with the bank now to see if they've renewed this, but I think not.

About the email addresses, I had one going back to '97 that I lost 5 years ago due to not logging in regularly. I think it was all gone. These ones, when I try to sign up as you suggested say "already taken" or something like that.

Thanks for all your many suggestions.

PS
I clicked on the long Say Goodbye link from a year ago, and read it, along with all of the comments. Thank you for that link…This helped me get some measure of perspective on this. It would be redundant for all of us to repeat those heartfelt comments. Still, I must say a current thank you for the joy you have brought into my life and the lives of so many others, by using your unique brain wiring and superb, unique writing talent. Whether you go dark or not, I will always remember you as a writer and …kleenex time…a friend. You can check-out, but you can never leave.

PS: Greetings, Mr. Hail!

𝐼'𝑚 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑑𝑎𝑚 𝑆𝑚𝑖𝑡ℎ'𝑠 𝐻𝑢𝑙𝑘 𝐻𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠!

How fun! Thank you! ☮️

PS: One moar idea...

As a temporary(?) measure, peakstupidity.org ($7.48/year) and peakstupidity.net ($12.98/year) are available. You could migrate the site to another webhost and get it all setup and after godaddy lets go of the domain you could repurchase it through a different registrar. (Or you could buy it from godaddy at auction after day 26? Or from godaddy after the auction window has closed around day 36?)

Or whatever.

Maybe remind godaddy that they had a massive data breech a couple years back and you don't feel comfortable having your "government" ID on their insecure servers. Surely there is someone over at godaddy who can take your payment and get this all back up and running while bypassing the ID policy.

Here's me hoping that autopay renews your domain...

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Good afternoon, Achmed and friends!

As far as I can tell, (and I may be wrong about this) your domain will remain active for 5 days after the expiration date. It also seems like you have an 18 day "grace period" where you can renew at the standard price. (After day 19 there is also a redemption fee.)

Since you're looking to move away from godaddy anyway, do you think it is possible that the customer service people will unlock your domain so you can register the .com with a different registrar?

Also, I know you've mentioned that the old yahoo email address has been memory holed. Is it possible at this point to create a "new" yahoo email account with the old account name? (or email address or whatever you want to call it?)

Just kicking around a few ideas...

Anyway... Happy Monday? ☮️