A while back I noted that someone is trying to re-launch boo.com
Well, prompted by something Tristan Louis sent to the ex-boo mailing list I did some digging to try to see what I could learn about the site. Not much:
whois records last updated on 26-Jun-2006:
Registrant:
Mooney, Sinead
3 Merton Drive
Ranelagh, Dublin 6
IE
Domain Name: BOO.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Mooney, Sinead boosite@gmail.com
3 Merton Drive
Ranelagh, Dublin 6
IE
+86-827-1463
Record expires on 17-Mar-2011.
Record created on 17-Mar-1999.
Database last updated on 2-Dec-2006 17:12:49 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.1
NS2.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.189.1
which others have noted is no-one famous, and living in a nice suburb of Dublin. DNS isn't much more interesting:$ host boo.com boo.com has address 205.178.145.234 boo.com mail is handled by 10 INBOUND.BOO.COM.NETSOLMAIL.NET.and the network block doesn't give anything away:
InQuent Technologies Inc. INQUENT-2 (NET-205-178-128-0-1)
205.178.128.0 - 205.178.191.255
Network Solutions, LLC NSLLC01 (NET-205-178-145-0-1)
205.178.145.0 - 205.178.145.255
However, this time, the NMS formmail script that is supposed to sign you up works. Only, (as before, and I didn't report it) it turns out that it doesn't. Specifically, it's trying to send a e-mail from the address you give it to subscribe@boo.com. If I send a message from my e-mail client, this happens:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
subscribe@boo.com
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO::
host INBOUND.BOO.COM.NETSOLMAIL.NET [205.178.149.7]:
550 5.2.1 ... Mailbox disabled for this recipient
No design clue, and no technical clue either. I wonder what they do have going for them?
clkao observes that the +86 given in the contact phone number is China. Which isn't Ireland.
Re:+86 is China
jmcnamara on 2006-12-03T23:11:18
086 is an Irish Mobile prefix.
John.
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Re:+86 is China
nicholas on 2006-12-03T23:21:48
Ah, thanks. This makes a lot more sense, given the length of the number. It didn't appear to have enough digits to be viable for a country with a population as large as China's.