Pxff.com no more?

[elderboy02]

I just randomly decided to check out puff.com to see how the site looks. It won't even load the site. Did our "old buddy" Jon Caputo decide to shut down his "wonderful" site?

[8zeros]

I did a little testing.
The domain is registered until 2015-01-22, so that's not it.
The site server doesn't ping. The server seems to be in Florida.
I tried probing the server with a port scanner and it doesn't respond.
My guess is their server is offline.
Wait...another scan tells me their server is up but just filtering everything. That could be from a router, not the actual server.
Their server address is owned by Affinity, interesting. They own Good Sam and RV.com and a bunch of stuff like that.
Could be a server outage.

A little edit, there are a lot of Affinity named businesses. This one seems to be an advertising and revenue stream one.

[T.G]

The horror!

[CigarNut]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUr__-VZeQ

[hotreds]

I like Puffs Plus with Lotion

[T.G]

Originally Posted by hotreds

I like Puffs Plus with Lotion

[Steve]

I got a birthday greeting from there last week...haven't been there in years.

[blugill]

Love the Asylum but sometimes still miss the Jungle.

[jhedrick83]

I unfortunately found that site first. Got tired of some of the attitudes and heavy handed policies and found you guys. Later learned the back story and if it's gone, no great loss. I do know this is like the 3rd or 4th time in the past few months this has happened. It always took like a week to get an explanation once it came back up and it was something like "a problem with server migration" or so lame excuse. Maybe Jon just needs to pay his damn bills, who knows.

[shilala]

All the videos and blinky stuff and ads probably broke the internet.

[357]

So the domain is registered through GoDaddy. The IP is registered to Affinity.

From Affinity's about us page...

Founded in 2006, we are world's leading contextual ad network. We build innovative advertising media and monetization solutions for Advertisers & Publishers.

Our advertising media and monetization solutions are delivered via Affinity's Global Pay-Per-Click (PPC) & Display Advertising Networks. Both these networks help 100,000+ Advertisers reach out to their target audience by delivering over 50 Billion ad impressions each month.

This is achieved through exclusive contextual ad distribution via our network of 10,000+ premium publishers and syndication channels from across North America, Western Europe, Middle East, south-East Asia, India and Australia

Perhaps the ad providers bought the site

Or, maybe the domain registration expired.

http://who.is/domain-history/pvff.com

Important Dates:


Expires On
March 19, 2014

Registered On
March 19, 2002

Updated On
June 27, 2006

[8zeros]

I got this:

 whois puff.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

   Domain Name: PUFF.COM
   Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
   Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
   Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
   Name Server: NS1.CHANGEIP.COM
   Name Server: NS2.CHANGEIP.COM
   Name Server: NS3.CHANGEIP.COM
   Name Server: NS4.CHANGEIP.COM
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Status: clientRenewProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Status: clientUpdateProhibited
   Updated Date: 25-apr-2011
   Creation Date: 19-mar-2002
   Expiration Date: 22-jan-2015

>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:22:10 UTC <<<

NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the 
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is 
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration 
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring 
registrar.  Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to 
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.

Shows it not expired, with a caveat.

[357]

Click the History tab

edit: that must have been the last expiration.


BOTL has a thread asking the same question (I'm not a member, I googled it) dated from July. Apparently it's been down for a while.

[Steve]

Unfortunately, the OLD jungle that I enjoyed died...

[8zeros]

Hmmmm....

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
Domain Name: CAPUTOMEDIA.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1596408523_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Update Date: 2012-01-09 13:11:54
Creation Date: 2010-05-08 20:57:46
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-05-08 20:57:46
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.480-624-2505
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Jonathan Caputo
Registrant Organization: Caputo Media, LLC
Registrant Street: 5722 South Flamingo Road
Registrant Street: Suite 338
Registrant City: Fort Lauderdale
Registrant State/Province: Florida
Registrant Postal Code: 33330
Registrant Country: United States
Registrant Phone: +1.9542431231
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: caputo70@gmail.com
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Jonathan Caputo
Admin Organization: Caputo Media, LLC
Admin Street: 5722 South Flamingo Road
Admin Street: Suite 338
Admin City: Fort Lauderdale
Admin State/Province: Florida
Admin Postal Code: 33330
Admin Country: United States
Admin Phone: +1.9542431231
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: caputo70@gmail.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Jonathan Caputo
Tech Organization: Caputo Media, LLC
Tech Street: 5722 South Flamingo Road
Tech Street: Suite 338
Tech City: Fort Lauderdale
Tech State/Province: Florida
Tech Postal Code: 33330
Tech Country: United States
Tech Phone: +1.9542431231
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: caputo70@gmail.com
Name Server: NS1.CHANGEIP.COM
Name Server: NS2.CHANGEIP.COM
Name Server: NS3.CHANGEIP.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
Last update of WHOIS database: 2014-09-11T19:00:00Z

[8zeros]

caputo.com is not working either. Interesting IP address.

[rrrrr@work DEFAULT]$ nslookup www.caputomedia.com
Server: 192.168.0.99
Address: 192.168.0.99#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.caputomedia.com
Address: 216.87.173.193

[rrrrr@work DEFAULT]$ nslookup puff.com
Server: 192.168.0.99
Address: 192.168.0.99#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: puff.com
Address: 216.87.173.129

[jhedrick83]

What makes it interesting? Just curious. I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this.

[8zeros]

The IP address is on the same subnet, maybe even the same computer. Caputo Media is the parent company. If it's also down then the whole company is probably down. There is the phone number, if anyone is so inclined as to call. I sent an email.

[jhedrick83]

Originally Posted by 8zeros

The IP address is on the same subnet, maybe even the same computer. Caputo Media is the parent company. If it's also down then the whole company is probably down. There is the phone number, if anyone is so inclined as to call. I sent an email.

Thanks!

[markem]

Originally Posted by Steve

Unfortunately, the OLD jungle that I enjoyed died...

You are my hero of the day, Steve. Thank you, brother.

I do believe that there may be a thread that details the pre-history of CA in a way that follows the CA rules, but I didn't find it in a quick search. Maybe someone else can find it. I'd hate to see that whole topic get re-opened.