We don’t normally post about the software that powers our non-blog site (Ruby On Rails – we like it a lot), but I just clicked through for some documentation and lo-and-behold, RubyOnRails.org is now squaterville:
According to domaintools.com, it has been snatched up by a company called Next Angle. It looks like the domain was originally purchased for 4 years on 19-Apr-2004. I’ve seen that same splash page on a lot of typo names.
Until this is worked out (until the squatter is paid extortion money), no installing gems from rubyonrails.org, no documentation from rubyonrails.org, and no love from all the dhh / rails haters in the world.
Update: Apparently it was a hosting problem (that host sure has a spammy default page). From where I sit it’s back online as of today.
Ah - I suppose that's tongue in cheek? Say what you will, but that's one of the spammiest looking default page I've seen.
Koder
Next Angle is a well known spamming company
DHH
Next Angle is actually my old consulting company. The domain havn't been snatched by squatters. There was merely a billing snafu that caused the site to go to the domain service's default page. It has been fixed and should be returning to normal shortly. You can use rubyonrails.com in the mean time.
Rubyonrails.org – Snatched by a squatter
We don’t normally post about the software that powers our non-blog site (Ruby On Rails – we like it a lot), but I just clicked through for some documentation and lo-and-behold, RubyOnRails.org is now squaterville:
According to domaintools.com, it has been snatched up by a company called Next Angle. It looks like the domain was originally purchased for 4 years on 19-Apr-2004. I’ve seen that same splash page on a lot of typo names.
Until this is worked out (until the squatter is paid extortion money), no installing gems from rubyonrails.org, no documentation from rubyonrails.org, and no love from all the dhh / rails haters in the world.
Update: Apparently it was a hosting problem (that host sure has a spammy default page). From where I sit it’s back online as of today.