Help me keep home.mcom.com online.
I am once again seeking a contact inside the Yahoo DNS team.
Early this morning the "home" record vanished from the "mcom.com" domain. I need it put back.
My last contact there was Paul Frieden, in 2023, but the only email address I have bounces. Ideally I would ask Paul, "Hey, can you introduce me to your replacement?" Failing that, I'd like to find anyone currently on the team responsible for Yahoo's DNS records.
https://jwz.org/b/yk76
@kalfeher I had a very specific question that you can't answer. People "just trying to help" by answering questions I did not ask are the bane of my fucking existence.
I beg of you. All of you. Don't be that guy.
@jwz You are unlikely to find a contact at Yahoo DNS because it no longer exists. Depending on your service, that may have moved to Turbify.
Good luck. I promise not to offer any more advice or reply.
I think you're even completely missing the part that this is about a domain *owned by Yahoo*, not about some sort of DNS management service provided by Yahoo to others. As far as e.g. yahoo.com resolves, this part of Yahoo still exists.
See the update at the end of https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-browsers-day/
Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online. It took some doing. There is comedy. First, the fun stuff: Until now, home.mcom.com and all URLs under it just redirected to netscape.com, then redirected a dozen more times before taking you to ...
@kalfeher @jwz I see from your profile you have "strong unresearched opinions".
This is one of those situations where a little bit of research into the person you are "trying to be helpful" to would spare you much embarrassment.
I'll get you started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
@bencurthoys All due respect, but if someone - anyone - posts a question that looks exactly like a thousand other newbie questions, I don't see why anyone should "do the research" to "avoid the embarrassment" of helping someone who doesn't need it.
Newbie requests for direct lines to God (or in this case Yahoo) are a dime a dozen. If you make a similar request, don't be surprised if people assume you may not be exactly sure what you are talking about and will gently probe the problem space to find out.
That's good of them; not bad. And should you realise you have cast your net too wide, because the responses are not helpful, craft a better question. Don't spit on those who tried to help.
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