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Question

what happened to tripod.com and lycos.com

Jun 16, 2016 5:58PM PDT

i built my web site on tripod hosted with lycos now they both have gone anyone know anything

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Clarification Request
This sounds like Some Stinkin' Spam to me
Jun 16, 2016 6:45PM PDT

So why don't the folks you built your sites on this question ?

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I meant
Jun 16, 2016 7:00PM PDT

Why don't they answer your questions?
This thread still stinks .....

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I think this member is seeing what I'm seeing.
Jun 16, 2016 7:19PM PDT

Tripod is showing nothing but a blank page today. Looks like the free ride may be over.

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Not everything was Free
Jun 17, 2016 12:00PM PDT

I pay a monthly fee for add free site and 12.95/year for .com web address + 9.95/year for privacy so my name and home address don't show on whois

those who had free sites were covered in adds Lycos got paid by the adds if the site was so-so obviously the add revenue failed to cover cost they should have just kept it a paid service perhaps they are pulling off the free sites and will come back only with subscribers such as myself

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Then you see the problem with companies that
Jun 17, 2016 12:07PM PDT

Shoot c*aps. I think that dollar amount would never cover the cost of service so eventually it had to fold. The last web address I have is 99 bucks a year but with a major web service.

Sounds like you got a bargain while it lasted.

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You're down.
Jun 16, 2016 6:51PM PDT

Hope you had a backup site.

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A legitimate question, as Tripod.com is down.
Jun 17, 2016 5:44AM PDT

I've had a site hosted there for 20+ years and Tripod can't be reached for the last few days, so says all the site checkers.
Since the Domain can't be reached, it is a little hard to contact them to ask why, ITSDIGGER.

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The site is up but blank here.
Jun 17, 2016 7:02AM PDT
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ gives up a blank page so the something is still working but this host has had troubles in the past.

Now it looks worse.

Remember that no one from that web host is here so in your 20 years you would have collected some contacts along the way? This is one of the issues Wozniak noted at http://www.cnet.com/news/woz-the-cloud-is-a-nightmare/

That is, you can't rely on such systems. You should keep your own services if they are critical and if not, be ready to re-deploy as such places fail.
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Sorry
Jun 17, 2016 7:22AM PDT

I should have looked at the site first.
So used to folks spamming that question that I just jumped in .

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Not finding on DNS either.
Jun 17, 2016 8:21AM PDT

I can not even ping tripod sites since nothing appears to translate using my DNS server.

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Try it using the Google DNS.
Jun 17, 2016 8:28AM PDT

I wonder if beyond the tripod issue the DNS records are munched on many ISPs.

I'm using 8.8.8.8

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There's others talking about this
Jun 17, 2016 8:44AM PDT
Here
Scroll down to read comments
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Good find!
Jun 17, 2016 8:58AM PDT
http://www.lycosstatus.com/ is telling us a bit more. Seems they know it's down but not telling if sites will be back up.

-> I know folk don't want to read this but FREE web sites come with no guarantee they will stay working. You will encounter folk that flame over this issue but FREE was never a sure way to keep your web site going.

Anyhow, good sleuthing on your part.
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Lycos (and Tripod and Angelfire) is back!
Jun 17, 2016 3:42PM PDT

Lycos and it's subs, like Tripod.com and Angelfire.com have returned to ONLINE status. It's taken two days for the new DNS records to propagate around the world wide web to each DNS server.

from http://www.lycosstatus.com/
Technical Issues

We are working on upgrading your service.
Will be back in a few hours.
And… (on the main splash page of lycos.com
Coming soon:
A new Lycos.com

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Still getting blank pages.
Jun 17, 2016 3:55PM PDT

Your post is a copy of what's at their status page and the folk above with web pages are telling me it's still gone. Not a DNS issue?

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Web 2.0 Sites
Jun 18, 2016 1:42AM PDT

These sites are some times up & down, not all time working.

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Re what happened to Tripod/Lycos.com
Jun 23, 2016 6:00AM PDT

The domain vanished for about six days but is now back online.. No explanation given that I can find.

Andrew
Irrelevant url from tripod-user removed by moderator.

Post was last edited on June 23, 2016 6:09 AM PDT