http://www.whois.sc/reallifecomics.com
Look at the Registrant.
Um, may I ask wtf is up with that?
Greg, are you going keenspot on us behind our backs?
keenspot?
Did you read the nameservers before you decided to start paranoia?
Or did you just fail to comprehend that maybe greg doesn't want to post his real name and address where crazy people (such as yourself) could find it?
Sorry Deacon, you would have done it much funnier.
Or did you just fail to comprehend that maybe greg doesn't want to post his real name and address where crazy people (such as yourself) could find it?
Sorry Deacon, you would have done it much funnier.
hahaha i don't come to these forums anymore 
Re: keenspot?
I did look at the nameservers, and I realize that there is no keenspot mention anywhere other than what I saw on the whois registry.
And my "snooping" was just an attempt to figure out what was up with the outages
And my "snooping" was just an attempt to figure out what was up with the outages
You are not legally allowed to falsify data in the registry, not to say you cant, but if you did and were caught (through billing info or some other method) you could loose the domain. As to privacy its super simple these days to simply "add privacy" to your registration these days.
As for nameservers, they dont mean jack for ownership of a domain, as they are just pointing at the host, as I am sure you know.
My best guess at why you see keenspot is likely when RLC first started Greg had it hosted on keenspot (as many a webcomic is/has been) as there is no way to change the "registrant" information, it will forever remain as the registrant. I remember quite a few hosts in the past would register your domain for you way back in the day, but instead of what we see now, with how they are an affiliate of a registrar, they would take your information and manually do it. Now that Networksoltuions is not the only registrar in exsistence and registering at a host allows to do it directly, you shouldn't come to that problem...
As I said, that is just a guess, but ive dealt with hosts and that stuff for a long time myself, so its not some crazy guess heh.
EDIT:
Slight correction on my part, its very possible to update registrant information, but Ive noticed some whois services dont update their info as quickly. So who knows? Maybe Greg is really a keenspot secret police agent... trying to keep us dependent on them!
As for nameservers, they dont mean jack for ownership of a domain, as they are just pointing at the host, as I am sure you know.
My best guess at why you see keenspot is likely when RLC first started Greg had it hosted on keenspot (as many a webcomic is/has been) as there is no way to change the "registrant" information, it will forever remain as the registrant. I remember quite a few hosts in the past would register your domain for you way back in the day, but instead of what we see now, with how they are an affiliate of a registrar, they would take your information and manually do it. Now that Networksoltuions is not the only registrar in exsistence and registering at a host allows to do it directly, you shouldn't come to that problem...
As I said, that is just a guess, but ive dealt with hosts and that stuff for a long time myself, so its not some crazy guess heh.
EDIT:
Slight correction on my part, its very possible to update registrant information, but Ive noticed some whois services dont update their info as quickly. So who knows? Maybe Greg is really a keenspot secret police agent... trying to keep us dependent on them!
The End is My Beginning
From: http://www.reallifecomics.com/daily.php?strip_id=934
If you're reading this, that means the domain has transferred over, and everything has begun anew. Welcome to the new Real Life comics, as hosted by ColoGuys.
I've been contemplating a move for a long while. I know what you're probably thinking, and no... it's not because of issues with KeenSpot. KeenSpot has been very good to me, and they are a wonderful organization. I wish them the best of success. However, for almost a year, I've had in mind some ideas for business ventures that will bring Real Life from what it is now, to the possibility of a full-time job for me. I just wanted to take the future of the comic into my own hands, and this is the first step.
I actually bought a full-on server box to be hosted at the ColoGuys facility. It's a pretty sweet machine, and I've had Ukyo name it "PAL 4200". So PAL is officially in charge of hosting from now on.
A little info on ColoGuys : they're the hosts of Megatokyo, Mac Hall, and Little Gamers, amongst others. I'm very excited about this whole thing. I'm using the ioncomix system to run the comic backend, which means a shift to php for handling the site now. This is nice, because things like the navigation menu, the footer, and all kinds of other things are now PHP includes, meaning I only have to update one file, and the whole site feels the change. It should also reduce the data load a bit, since the page used to display the archive comics is the same page, not multiple pages.
As far as other ventures I've been exploring, I'm currently working on a Real Life book, to be published by I.C. Entertainment no later than late August of this year. The book will be mostly in black and white, as it is a collection of the entire first year's worth of strips, but any strips that were in color will be in color in the book, and they'll look great. I'm also going to be adding commentary on all the strips, as well as a few yet-to-be-determined extras that will only be in the book. The book will be the same size as an anime graphic novel, have a full-color glossy cover, and at one comic per page, should be a pretty hefty book. The nice thing is that for once, you'll be able to see the small details you may have missed while reading the online version. The book will retail at $14.95, and I'm not quite sure of the venues it will be available in, but you can already preorder it through I.C. Entertainment's page (as well as get a little glance at the cover image).
I also have some new merchandising opportunities that have been made available to me, but as nothing is finalized on them yet, I don't want to discuss them in too much detail.
And i'm going to be working on a system for it, but one of the things this entails is that I will be selling advertising space on Real Life directly. Until I work out the system, Real Life will be ad-free, but even when I do sell ads, they will be unobtrusive, and non-offensive. This is just one part of the method to get Real Life self-sufficient.
Even with all this stuff going on, I want to stress that I do not intend to lose sight of what makes all this possible in the first place. On the contrary, i plan to concentrate more fully on the comic itself, to make Real Life better than it's been in a long time. I hope to continue doing Real Life until I am physically unable, so no matter what, be assured that I will be here making comics for your enjoyment and mine, and I hope you'll stick around for the ride. Thanks for reading!
Posted Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:19 pm:
Greg used to have a relationship with Keenspot. Might still have one. Had one with MT. Who knows... I don't know if it's easy to transfer a registry out of one's name into another without paying.
Besides.... What were you doing? Trying to find out where he lives?
If you're reading this, that means the domain has transferred over, and everything has begun anew. Welcome to the new Real Life comics, as hosted by ColoGuys.
I've been contemplating a move for a long while. I know what you're probably thinking, and no... it's not because of issues with KeenSpot. KeenSpot has been very good to me, and they are a wonderful organization. I wish them the best of success. However, for almost a year, I've had in mind some ideas for business ventures that will bring Real Life from what it is now, to the possibility of a full-time job for me. I just wanted to take the future of the comic into my own hands, and this is the first step.
I actually bought a full-on server box to be hosted at the ColoGuys facility. It's a pretty sweet machine, and I've had Ukyo name it "PAL 4200". So PAL is officially in charge of hosting from now on.
A little info on ColoGuys : they're the hosts of Megatokyo, Mac Hall, and Little Gamers, amongst others. I'm very excited about this whole thing. I'm using the ioncomix system to run the comic backend, which means a shift to php for handling the site now. This is nice, because things like the navigation menu, the footer, and all kinds of other things are now PHP includes, meaning I only have to update one file, and the whole site feels the change. It should also reduce the data load a bit, since the page used to display the archive comics is the same page, not multiple pages.As far as other ventures I've been exploring, I'm currently working on a Real Life book, to be published by I.C. Entertainment no later than late August of this year. The book will be mostly in black and white, as it is a collection of the entire first year's worth of strips, but any strips that were in color will be in color in the book, and they'll look great. I'm also going to be adding commentary on all the strips, as well as a few yet-to-be-determined extras that will only be in the book.
The book will be the same size as an anime graphic novel, have a full-color glossy cover, and at one comic per page, should be a pretty hefty book. The nice thing is that for once, you'll be able to see the small details you may have missed while reading the online version. The book will retail at $14.95, and I'm not quite sure of the venues it will be available in, but you can already preorder it through I.C. Entertainment's page (as well as get a little glance at the cover image).I also have some new merchandising opportunities that have been made available to me, but as nothing is finalized on them yet, I don't want to discuss them in too much detail.
And i'm going to be working on a system for it, but one of the things this entails is that I will be selling advertising space on Real Life directly. Until I work out the system, Real Life will be ad-free, but even when I do sell ads, they will be unobtrusive, and non-offensive. This is just one part of the method to get Real Life self-sufficient.
Even with all this stuff going on, I want to stress that I do not intend to lose sight of what makes all this possible in the first place. On the contrary, i plan to concentrate more fully on the comic itself, to make Real Life better than it's been in a long time. I hope to continue doing Real Life until I am physically unable, so no matter what, be assured that I will be here making comics for your enjoyment and mine, and I hope you'll stick around for the ride. Thanks for reading!
Posted Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:19 pm:
Greg used to have a relationship with Keenspot. Might still have one. Had one with MT. Who knows... I don't know if it's easy to transfer a registry out of one's name into another without paying.
Besides.... What were you doing? Trying to find out where he lives?
[quote="JimmyDean";p="474326"]Besides.... What were you doing? Trying to find out where he lives? [/quote]
As I said earlier, I was just trying to figure out what was up with the outages (part of it was to see if my commiecast broadband was being odd and forgetting a DNS change).
I am no stalker :p
And thanks for the info, nice to know
[/quote]As I said earlier, I was just trying to figure out what was up with the outages (part of it was to see if my commiecast broadband was being odd and forgetting a DNS change).
I am no stalker :p
And thanks for the info, nice to know
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