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I'm getting the following error:

    neotokyo.vg has expired

    Please contact your registrar or go to the Registry website

    The domain has expired 15887 days ago on 01 January 1970 and is pending renewal or deletion.



Yes makes perfect sense ... 15887 days ago on 01 January 1970

why .... this was a pre-internet blog !


You mean "pre-web blog" as the internet existed in 1970 :p (albeit it was just ARPANET back then - TCP/IP came a few years later)

Anyhow, I wonder if this is a fault at with his hosts (possibly a variable not assigned a value in some managed code) as the expires age happens to be the start date of the UNIX time stamp (epoch)


> You mean "pre-web blog"

And just as importantly, pre-DNS. Its impressive that a domain expired a decade before DNS was invented.


> And just as importantly, pre-DNS.

Good point :)

> Its impressive that a domain expired a decade before DNS was invented.

It's not that impressive as that's not a random date - displaying the start of epoch would likely mean that a value wasn't assigned to a variable, so when it's being read back (and converted to a human readable format), it's defaulting to the earliest date in epoch (1970). Just like how most languages default the value of an integer to 0 (zero). (in fact I'd wager that it is being held as an integer and the Jan date is the result of a conversion of that int defaulted at 0 into a human readable format)




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