We're back! An explanation.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Long story short, we're being hosed by our domain registrar. Years ago, Tim bought the domain from a company, that company dished the service to another company, those companies stopped working together, and now we have no control over the old domain northsidebaseball.com. After repeated requests to gain access for the past two months, we've gotten nowhere.

We're going to keep working on this - obviously - but we can't go without a site while this (awful) company keeps ghosting us or giving us the runaround.

So the site is back under this new domain until we can retrieve the old domain. All your accounts, information, and passwords are the same as the old site.

[Irrelevant Dude]

I hear nsbb.com may be available.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I really thought that was it this time.  

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Thanks Brock!  I got curious enough to check the ICANN registration and it looks like one of those 2 nameless companies just gave up after Facebook sued them into the ground, so I can only imagine what type of runaround it was to even get to the point of not getting a response.

[Brian707]

Glad you are back

[Brock Beauchamp]

13 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Thanks Brock!  I got curious enough to check the ICANN registration and it looks like one of those 2 nameless companies just gave up after Facebook sued them into the ground, so I can only imagine what type of runaround it was to even get to the point of not getting a response.

Woof, I just looked into this a bit and a lot of things make a lot more sense right now. That company appears to be shady af.

[Rob]

For whatever reason, I was able to pretty easily gloss over the whole thing with new ownership and major changes to the board itself. But seeing this place with a different URL really makes this feel like a different site entirely.

[jersey cubs fan]

Did you think at all about using nortsidebaseball?

[Brock Beauchamp]

5 minutes ago, Rob said:

For whatever reason, I was able to pretty easily gloss over the whole thing with new ownership and major changes to the board itself. But seeing this place with a different URL really makes this feel like a different site entirely.

Trust me, no one is more upset about it than me. I've spent the past six weeks working to build up NSBB and its traffic and due to a registrar that won't do its job, all of that work has basically been torpedoed due to no fault of anyone here unless we can pry the domain out of the registrar's hands and back to Tim's control.

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, jersey cubs fan said:

Did you think at all about using nortsidebaseball?

I had to pick something that could be used as a permanent fallback in case we can't get the domain back to Tim. And having found out that this registrar just lost a $3m lawsuit to Facebook for cybersquatting, things feel pretty bleak.

[UMFan83]

Wow the site has been up for 16 hours and I had no idea, I kept going to the old domain.  Glad to be back!  There was at least 40 different times I thought to come here and read or comment on something before remembering we were down.

Edited May 3, 2023 by UMFan83

[Brock Beauchamp]

Hey, a person responded. I'm slightly more optimistic this might get resolved at some point.

[jersey cubs fan]

6 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Hey, a person responded. I'm slightly more optimistic this might get resolved at some point.

Was their name Chet Geepiti?

[Brock Beauchamp]

We're getting the old domain back!

In a week.

But still!

[Ding Dong Johnson]