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  1. 11-29-2005, 08:40 AM #1
    72targa
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    Anybody know...

    ...what happened to this site?

    http://www.early911s.com/
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  2. 11-29-2005, 08:52 AM #2
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    Are you thinking of early911.co.uk?
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  3. 11-29-2005, 08:56 AM #3
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    Nope (cool site as well, though!). http://www.early911s.com/ has (had?) a home page with little (tiny) photos of all of the early 911 owners that had registered there. Each photo was live and would open to a full page view. It had a great VIN decoder, too.
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  4. 11-29-2005, 12:01 PM #4
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    It was up just a couple of days ago. I hope this is temporary as it is probably the best collection of Early 911 photos in existence, has a great registry listing of around 600 early 911's and several other interesting pages.

    I corresponded with the creator of this site several months ago. Seems like he told me he was a programmer of some sort and a former Early 911 enthusiest. I believe he said the site was created to be self sufficient; essentially managed itself so unless its demise was intentional, I hope he is aware of its inaccessibility.

    If I can find his contact info I will advise him it is down.
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  5. 11-29-2005, 02:54 PM #5
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    Just checked . . . . .

    The domain is registered to a J. Laidler (based on his email address) and the registration of the domain expired on 11/25 and was turned off on 11/27.

    I sent him an email message telling him that it was expired, and (boldly) that we would be happy to help him with the registration fees etc, if he would turn the domain over to us. (Sorry, Chuck, I had to think fast on my feet.)

    I'll see if he responds to my email. But there are two things here that are interesting, first the domain name "early911s.com" and the website itself, with all the information that is on it.

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  6. 11-29-2005, 04:14 PM #6
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    You can still access it using the Wayback Machine .....

    http://www.waybackmachine.org/

    http://web.archive.org/web/200409251...early911s.com/

    Of course, these are only archived copies from various dates.
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  7. 11-29-2005, 04:20 PM #7
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    In fact, come to think of it this board is archived on there as well. All the way back to 1998. Maybe there's enough in there to rebuild the info/data lost during the meltdown????
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  8. 11-29-2005, 05:10 PM #8
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  9. 11-30-2005, 04:19 AM #9
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    Problem resolved

    BTW, I did get a response from James Laidler about the website:

    Hello Larry,

    Thanks for caring. I work for a webhost and been trying to get my domain transferred from the current registrar to mine (since I get free domains), so alas, it expired since I didn't want to pay them and I will have to renew and then transfer. Rest assured, it will be back, probably later this week.

    James
    Just a matter of time, and he'll be back up.

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  10. 11-30-2005, 05:43 PM #10
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    It was actually through that site that I found this one a few years back. I had always thought it was somehow related.
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