{"id":378,"date":"2005-07-17T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T23:43:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-20T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T18:43:08","slug":"gravatar_com_is_down_what_could_we_do_if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/17\/gravatar_com_is_down_what_could_we_do_if\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravatar.com is down. What could we do if the worse happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 20 july 2005:<\/strong>
\nTom Werner contacted Lisa today<\/a>, there is the result: \u201cI left for vacation to China on the 11th, and it seems I forgot to renew the gravatar.com domain before I left. Now I have the rude awakening here in Hangzhou that gravatars have been down since the 15th. Curse my timing! I am renewing the domain right now but it might take a little while to go through and there might be other problems I don\u2019t forsee. Could you to make a little note on your weblog informing the peoples of this misfortune? Tell them I still care!!!!\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update 18 july 2005:<\/strong> Eliot <\/a>pointed out that the Gravator site is always up and running. The problem is that the DNS take into account by the registrar. As he said, you only have to change the string “gravatar.com” by the string “64.124.231.223” and everything will work. Take a look at the Gravator’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However the question persists: what happened to Mr. Werner? Is there always someone that manages the system?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many people know this piece of news: Gravatar.com is down due to domain expiration. However, I just checked the Whois list and it seem to be on hold since some days.<\/p>\n

Domain Name: GRAVATAR.COM
\nRegistrar: TUCOWS INC.
\nWhois Server: whois.opensrs.net
\nReferral URL: http:\/\/domainhelp.tucows.com
\nName Server: NS3.POLARPHASE.COM
\nName Server: NS4.POLARPHASE.COM
\nStatus: REGISTRAR-HOLD<\/strong>
\nUpdated Date: 16-jul-2005
\nCreation Date: 15-jul-2004
\nExpiration Date: 15-jul-2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are many possibilities that could explain what is happening with Gravatar. However, what is sure is that Tom Werner <\/a>forgot, intentionally or not, to renew the domain name.<\/p>\n

This is a sad story considering that thousands of web sites were using this beautiful little service. Many web site developers were relying on the service, and he fell apart. The problem with this type of service is that it needs to be centralized somewhere. Then when such a service stop to exist, everyone that where using it have nothing to rely on anymore.<\/p>\n

So, what could we do? In the next days we will probably know what happened to Gravatar.com, the service we were using. If it happens that the service we once knew is dead, the only thing we have to do is to rebuild it from scratch. Ease? Ease, probably not, but not as hard as some could think. What I suggest? Trying to contact Mr. Werner to know what happens, but Phu<\/a> tried without success. Another possibility is to rebuilding it under a new name. How? With my time. The only thing I need is the money to host the service for the next year.<\/p>\n

So, if it appears in the next days that Gravatar.com is really dead and that I have some support from the community, I will take the time to rebuild it. If it happens, it could be up in the next 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

Leave a comment here if you find what happened to Gravatar.com and contact me if you are willing to support me if we need to rebuild the whole system.<\/p>\n

Technorati: Gravatar<\/a> | Gravatar.com<\/a> | domain<\/a> | renewal<\/a> | avatar<\/a> | support<\/a> | development<\/a> | project<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update 20 july 2005: Tom Werner contacted Lisa today, there is the result: \u201cI left for vacation to China on the 11th, and it seems I forgot to renew the gravatar.com domain before I left. Now I have the rude awakening here in Hangzhou that gravatars have been down since the 15th. Curse my timing! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}