• Well, it’s Friday, and at presstime, our domain still is down and out. Here’s what happened: As most of you know, you gotta pay for a “.com” address on the web. The company that takes care of this stuff is called Network Solutions. They’re SUPPOSED to warn the domain owner about a site’s going down, but I guess due to the change of both mailing and e-mail address over the past year, they didn’t know where to find me. Anyway, once the domain disappeared we discovered that the .com domain was put on hold due to lack of payment, and immediately paid it up for the next 2 years. Precautions will be taken to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. Network Solutions will have the domain back up hopefully sometime today (if not already), but it will take it a few days to propogate around the internet to your server. So, if typing www.newsaskew.com into your browser doesn’t work yet, give it another day or two. It shouldn’t be long before it’s back to business as usual.

The biggest side-effect from this problem is the fact that e-mails sent to brad@newsaskew.com, chris@newsaskew.com, or scoops@newsaskew.com probably bounced right back to you over the past 2 or 3 days. If they bounced back to you, it’s safe to assume that they didn’t make it through, sorry to say. For that reason we may be a little bit behind on news, scoops, and stuff. We’ll be going through e-mail backlog and other stuff as soon as the site’s back to normal, and catch up ASAP. Sorry for the problems, and glad that you stuck with us through the confusion. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to alert us to the problem as well.

We’re not sure if things are just slow or we’re out of the loop due to the server problems, but we’ve got just a few stories for ya today…Rest assured if anything’s missed, we’ll catch back up with it all as soon as things get back to normal. Keep the scoops lined up, or mail them to bplevyak@earthlink.net (my temporary address while the News Askew domain is down). Here’s what we got for ya today: