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...

[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.

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by markem

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.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14966

[shilala]

Originally Posted by pnoon

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14966

I had no clue what prescient meant. Had to look it up.
It's almost been 6 years. I am getting old at like Mach 3.
Thanks for the link, Peter.

[MarkinAZ]

Originally Posted by pnoon

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14966

My new signature line

[Ashcan Bill]

Originally Posted by Steve

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

The jungle didn't die, it just transformed into something better called the Asylum.

That puff thing was never the jungle, and it sounds like it may have finally been put out of it's misery.

[hotreds]

Originally Posted by Ashcan Bill

The jungle didn't die, it just transformed into something better called the Asylum.

That puff thing was never the jungle, and it sounds like it may have finally been put out of it's misery.

Keyrekt!