Mastodawn

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

Kal Feher 3d ago

@jwz that zone appears to be delegated to AWS. do yahoo just resell R53 or is this a recent change? in any case if you have access to the AWS console you can add it back.
didnt realise yahoo dns was still a thing tbh. wasnt there a bulk transfer away from them?

@kalfeher Please don't explain DNS to me. I do not have control of the domain. I need to talk to someone who does.

Kal Feher 3d ago

@jwz that would be godaddy. do you have an account with them?

@kalfeher Go away

Kal Feher 3d ago

@jwz soz, trying to be helpful.
good luck

@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.

Kal Feher 3d ago

@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!

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 ...

Simon Zerafa 3d ago

Wow,. What a wanker. Blocked.

Ben Curthoys 3d ago

@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

Jamie Zawinski - Wikipedia

@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.

Ben Curthoys 2d ago

@kauer with all due respect, if you can't tell the difference between a newbie question and a precise and specific question asked by someone who knows what they are talking about, you aren't in a position to be gratifying your ego by "trying to help" anyone. To assume that because you don't understand the question the person asking it must have got it wrong! To "gently probe the problem space" by starting from the assumption that you can't possibly be the problem! Such hubris!

@kauer @bencurthoys "All due respect", get fucked.

@jwz @kalfeher https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433383/

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) ⭐ 7.4 | Biography, Drama, History

1h 33m | PG

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Randulo.com (Randy)3d ago

@kalfeher Whatever their problem, the level of disrespect went beyond the acceptable.

MJ Turner 3d ago

@jwz I don't have a contact but a useful port of call with these types of things is often the NANOG list - https://nanog.org/resources/nanog-mailing-lists/. Might be worth asking there for a contact? It's almost certain that someone from the Yahoo DNS team will be on the list or someone will point you in their direction.

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Dr. David McBride (dwm)3d ago

@mjturner @jwz Failing that, the SOA record for yahoo.com looks better than the one for mcom.com for advertising a real-looking hostmaster contact address; if you're lucky, that might get your request in front of the right sympathetic human.

@jwz 🙏 ☮️

Elijah Miller 3d ago

@jwz I reached out to someone who left that org not too long ago.🤞

Elijah Miller 3d ago

@jwz looks like she was the one who helped 7 years ago even.

Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago

@jwz Yahoo DNS? Weren’t they bought by a holding company like AOL 5-10 years ago?
I had serious problems with their mail systems 3 years ago…didn’t realize they were doing DNS still.

Vick Forcella ™🌈🌳❄️☑️:verifi 2d ago

@jwz Prolly not much help since I assume you know the names. They are listed, sorta, here.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmcom.com%2F+site%3Ahome.mcom.com%2Fpeople&ia=web
Perhaps one of them know someone that knows etc.