ofxhome.com down

[GWB]

Is the owner of the domain willing to "point" the domain to a
different IP address with his domain registrar?  Or is he thinking he
would transfer the domain lease to gnucash or some other project?
Here's the first part of the "WHO IS" database search on OFXHOME.COM:

<<
Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: OFXHOME.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.WIREDTREE.COM
Name Server: NS2.WIREDTREE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 01-mar-2017
Creation Date: 27-feb-2008
Expiration Date: 27-feb-2018

>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 02 May 2017 18:47:52 GMT <<<
...
>>

The rest of the info is in the database, contact, etc.  So,
conceivably, if the domain pointed to an (extra?) IP that's already
one of the servers for gnucash.org, that might work.  Then the
question becomes how does the site work; is it similar to a git
repository, or mercurial,  or the gnucash download site at
sourceforge?  I don't know to run any of those, and I don't use ofx
lookups for the bank (I download the ofx files from the institution).
But I do know something about the domain leasing and the dns system
(not too much, but probably enough).  I use Moniker for domain
leasing, and they've been very good at transferring and figuring out
domains.  I also use redundant domain resolvers (GoDaddy is quite good
for that in North America).

Let me know and I'll do some digging.

Gordon

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> +gnucash-devel
>
> Hi,
>
> tl;dr: ofxhome.com is down.  I emailed the owner.  He found out about it
> today.  We should decide what to do.
>
> Long version:
>
> I just heard back from him.  Here's his response:
>
> I just found out about this today. As you can guess I haven't been doing
> much with
> ofxhome.com recently other than keeping it on life support.
>
>
> My host was medialayer and it turns out that its owner has passed away and
> the
> service has shut down. I should have some old backups available.
> Unfortunately I may
> not be able to access anything recent. I'll continue looking into this.
>
>
> Does the community have a plan in place? I'm happy to turn over
> ofxhome.com to the
> open source community. Or you can go in a different direction if you think
> ofxhome.com should be replaced (you won't hurt my feelings, it's old!).
>
>
>
> So... what WOULD be the plan?  I don't think we even considered a plan..
> We could take it over, but we probably want it "hosted" as opposed to
> "self-hosted"..  I don't know what the platform is/was that he was using.
>
> Comments?  Suggestions?
>
> -derek
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 12:41 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> yes, we noticed this last night.
>> I've emailed the domain owner to inquire.
>> -derek
>>
>> Paul Faulstich <psf at waltzingcat.com> writes:
>>
>>> It appears ofxhome.com has been down since about April 24. Not sure
>>> when,
>>> or if, it will come back online. This breaks GnuCash's ability to look
>>> up
>>> bank information.  :(
>>>
>>> psf
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