Even after the domain expires, there is a period of time that the original owner can renew the domain, so it is not available to be picked up by just anybody until that time frame expires. The two email addresses associated with the domain record are: [email protected] and [email protected].
It is a common oversight to forget to update the email addresses associated when a company buys and changes the root domain. It is quite possible that "prac.pentax.com" no longer exists. Hopefully the email administrator for ricohimaging.com was smart enough to forward emails to those address to someone who still works for the company. Carolyn is no longer with Ricoh, according to her LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carolyn-hassell/7/470/7a8 Neither is Khoi Tran: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=86680095&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=SpCm&locale=en_US&srchid=3023767781437428763772&srchindex=1&srchtotal=1&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A3023767781437428763772%2CVSRPtargetId%3A86680095%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue Someone should post the info on Ricoh's Facebook page or this could easily slip between the cracks. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dan, have you tried to follow the link to buy it? > It is not straight forward. You cannot just "buy" that domain. You can > submit an offer to the owner (according to GoDaddy), and that would cost > $69+commission fee (whatever it is). ... And maybe some more.. > > And no, it wouldn't be sufficient for Ricoh to follow the link to renew. > They need to have the login/password information for the account(s) used to > register/maintain the domain. > (Otherwise, anybody would've been able to take it over.) > If those are lost, restoring those can take days if not weeks. > ... and may not even be successful, depending on how strict and stubborn > GoDaddy support/rules are. > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > > Daniel J. Matyola Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:22:42 -0700 wrote: > > All Ricoh would have to do is to go the the old URL for the Gallery. > That takes one to the GoDaddy page that asks whether you are the > registered user and provides a link for renewing the registration. > > > That same page is also offering the domain name for sale. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Either Ricoh doesn't want to renew it, or they cannot find the passwords >> for >> access to GoDaddy registration account, as those who had them might be >> long >> gone. In either case, if Ricoh didn't warn PPG users that they are not >> going >> forward with it (I don't know, my notifications are turned off, and I >> haven't been there for ages), it is rather disrespectful of them. >> >> >> Unfortunately, GoDaddy holds to that domain, by keeping it d renewed for >> the >> next year, so you cannot actually buy it. From the point of view of ICANN, >> it has been renewed already today. Otherwise, I would have considered >> jumping on it. ... Just for fun of it. >> >> I wouldn't be surprised if someone will do that if GoDaddy releases it >> some >> time soon. >> >> >> Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
