• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION - ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ

    Due to an increase in the number of new members who are trying to systematically download our entire Resource Library (one new member yesterday tried to download 3,000+ files AT ONCE!) we are being forced to implement some changes regarding who can download what, how many files at a time and at what speed. As the forums and Resource Library share the same bandwidth when the Library gets overloaded with demand like that the forums fall over, as we have all seen recently. It's sad that greed has forced our hand in this way but we must do something for the benefit of all our legitimate members (many of whom paid money for the upkeep of the site) and to prevent the files stored here being used for nefarious purposes. Many of our uploads have specific conditions tied to them that forbid uploading to any other site or deny uploading to any site that has a 'paywall' (i.e. a pay to download policy). Due to the number of mass download attempts recently we can only assume that somebody, somewhere, is attempting to stock up a new file library with our files and we owe it to our up-loaders to protect their files and intellectual property especially as many (like my own LDR Development projects) are made available at SOH only and are specified as such in the 'read me' files.

    The forums and Resource Library will be taken offline as of 13:00 EDT with the forums coming back online shortly after without the resources library while we work on setting up permissions on the new Library module.

    We hope our members understand why we need to do this and will bear with us while we implement the changes.

    Thanks in anticipation, SOH ADMINISTRATION

    Downloads are now active. You may proceed with downloading as desired

    The download limits are a work in progress. Some settings are likely to need tweaking in the coming days.

Where did the .com name go?

Seems to me that the moment they put up that login box they are using deceptive practices to gather information illicitly.
A clear description of the issue: State that the site is a "phishing site," "spoof site," or "scam site" designed to deceive users.
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Even though they own the domain now imo they are most assuredly, at a minimum, a scam site at this point. Anywhoo just my 10 cents, inflation you know, on the subject. :cool:

Wheels
 
Now, that I'm semi-officially back kinda sorta, I hate to hear about losing the .com domain. But it's just a domain name. SOH has always been more about the people than anything.

With the possible exception of Panther, I'm probably the last of the original gang that started Sim-Outhouse up after the hostile takeover of Combat Flight Center. I was there from about 4 or 5 days after CK started it up in November of 1998. I stayed with it until early Jan 2020 when wife took a freak fall and broke her neck at C1 & C2 which made her an instant quadriplegic and I had to shift everything over to her care. She passed away from septic infection a couple of months ago and I'm slowly putting life back together.

W
 
Willy said:
Now, that I'm semi-officially back kinda sorta, I hate to hear about losing the .com domain. But it's just a domain name. SOH has always been more about the people than anything.

With the possible exception of Panther, I'm probably the last of the original gang that started Sim-Outhouse up after the hostile takeover of Combat Flight Center. I was there from about 4 or 5 days after CK started it up in November of 1998. I stayed with it until early Jan 2020 when wife took a freak fall and broke her neck at C1 & C2 which made her an instant quadriplegic and I had to shift everything over to her care. She passed away from septic infection a couple of months ago and I'm slowly putting life back together.

W
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Sorry for your loss Willy. Hang tough.
 
Tom Clayton said:
Here's an idea... Start spamming the entry page with made-up credentials like this:
Username: Sookon
Password: D33znutz321
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On a sidenote, I mentionned what happened to the old domain name to a couple of (ethical) hacker friends of mine. They have a virtual server farm running somewhere and they started a DDOS attack on the old domain. Apparently the .com server is pretty robust. ;)
 
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Has anyone thought about doing something like a search and replace for the .com links in the.org site? There has been several times I clicked on a download link in the forums and it directed me to the .com site
 
wbuchart said:
Has anyone thought about doing something like a search and replace for the .com links in the.org site? There has been several times I clicked on a download link in the forums and it directed me to the .com site
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That would be prohibitively difficult. Not only had the .com suffix changed into .org, the rest of the URL has changed as well. What you propose is feasible, but the links wouldn't work.

Remember, we're talking about thousands of posts and links.
 
@wbuchart that would be a good question for Xenforo support. Can you give me an example that I can use.

IfI could do it the best that might happen is we replace the .com with .org and the link fails as the rest of the link is wrong. Still with asking.
 
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