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What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:47 am
by Leira
It's rather odd, but
http://igolocal.net/ seems to be down for two or three days now.
Does anyone know what happened to it? Furthermore, was there any sort of development going on at that site? I joined quite some time ago and it always looked the same (not extremely functional, I might add).
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:54 pm
by EdLee
It was an interesting idea/theory/experiment.
Now we see the reality/results of the experiment.
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:11 am
by BobC
The ruby go server has also gone
http://govsgo.com/
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:24 am
by hyperpape
Does anyone know cthomas, the creator or igolocal? I'll pm him on here, but I don't know any other way to get in touch.
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:05 am
by tchan001
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:23 am
by xed_over
He's fairly active on Facebook.
I posted a question on his iGoLocal page there a few days ago, which should have notified him right away. No response yet.
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:36 am
by xed_over
he's acknowledged my message... still down
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:07 pm
by Marcus
I actually met a few opponents thanks to igoLocal, so I hope it will come back up.
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:07 am
by Exologist
That wouldn't be very good if it went down for good, although I'll have to admit I didn't use it all that much. :/
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:59 pm
by Leira
Well it seems to be back on its tracks now.
I'm hoping to see some improvements though, I always liked the idea of such a place.
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:10 am
by ptw
I think IgoLocal is great idea.
It would be a good thing to encourage others to use this.
I've found since starting/reviving the local go club in State College, pa that there are more people who either play go or want to learn go in my area than I had imagined.
IgoLocal seems like a good tool to help bring those people out of the woodwork.
I'm definately going to push it's use among the members at my club (the Schlow Library Go Club in State College, PA).
Maybe we can encourage it's use among the people here.
--ptw--
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:37 am
by lefuet
the domain seems to be vacant again.
probably since April 2012 as the senseis article seems to indicate.
I didn't use it very often but think igolocal is a very important idea. It would be sad to lose it.
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:50 am
by Bonobo
“whois igolocal.net” tells me this:
Code: Select all
Domain name: igolocal.net
Administrative Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (rbgkjnpdvw@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4259744730
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O igolocal.net
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Technical Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (rbgkjnpdvw@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4259744730
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O igolocal.net
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Registrant Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent ()
Fax:
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O igolocal.net
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Status: Locked
Name Servers:
buy.internettraffic.com
sell.internettraffic.com
Creation date: 26 Apr 2010 01:51:00
Expiration date: 26 Apr 2013 00:51:06
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:34 am
by xed_over
Bonobo wrote:“whois igolocal.net” tells me this:
...
yeah, that looks like a domain squatter.
I think Chuck Thomas has disappeared from the Go Community.
Re: What ever happened to Igolocal?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:58 am
by Bonobo
And then … whois
igolocal.org:
Huh? <headscratch> could it be there is some confusion which domain “our” igolocal actually is? This one really is down (.com and .net seem to be for sale), and the owner’s mail address is “chuck@…”.