RIAA website now routable and public
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 03/03/2003 at 18:15 GMT
The Recording Industry Association of America website is once again up
and running.
It may have been up and running a lot longer. When we checked in
yesterday, riaa.com had been registered with the domain service with an
IP address of 10.10.10.1 - a nonroutable, private address.
So, in order to see it, you had to call round to the hosters' home and
ask permission to join his private network.
On Saturday we reported that a beginner to the world of web hosting,
Tomorrow's Solutions Today, Inc., had been given the job of looking after
one of the preyed-upon websites in the world, and was running it from
home.
You can read the story, Disabled war veteran hosts Disabled RIAA
website here. It's one of the
strangest sequence of events we've ever reported.
Neither Tomorrow's Solutions Today, Inc. nor the RIAA has yet responded
to our enquiries.
A chart showing availability statistics for the website can be seen
here. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29554.html
