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Re: Parks Gold Series

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MistrBadgr wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:25 am The problem I have with the want ad is that I am asking someone to go to a lot of trouble packaging and sending me an eyepiece...doing me a big favor...and then paying them a cheap price for it. Better to wait until someone decides to sell their eyepiece on their own, then buy it if the price is within my range. If the price is too much for me, then I simply back away and nobody knows I was there. I hope that makes sense.
Makes perfect sense. I done both. However, don't feel bad for the seller. They would not sell something dear to them, people who respond to wanted ads have unused stuff sitting in the drawers, often forgotten. Then they see your ad and go: Aha! I think I have it somewhere, let's make some money.
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Re: Parks Gold Series

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Don Pensack wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:26 pm Parks closed their doors in 2012 and none of the products you see on the site are available.
In fact, all their products were sold or destroyed.
The website is still up due to a quirk in a very old architecture for the site.
There are several websites that still do business that use the same obsolete website architecture and the server farm can't shut down that one server without shutting down those businesses.
There is no one left who remembers how to shut down just one site in the server, so the Scope City and Parks websites are still up (though you cannot place an order).
I'm afraid the information you see is a bit of a time machine and you are traveling back in time a decade or more.

Every year, I see a new post like this from someone who doesn't know that Parks and Scope City are long gone.

I wonder who keeps paying for their respective domain name renewals (with a domain name registrar)? If the domain name expires then that takes it out of the DNS servers. The server wouldn't have to be turned off; it simply couldn't be reached.

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BFaucett wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:14 am
Don Pensack wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:26 pm Parks closed their doors in 2012 and none of the products you see on the site are available.
In fact, all their products were sold or destroyed.
The website is still up due to a quirk in a very old architecture for the site.
There are several websites that still do business that use the same obsolete website architecture and the server farm can't shut down that one server without shutting down those businesses.
There is no one left who remembers how to shut down just one site in the server, so the Scope City and Parks websites are still up (though you cannot place an order).
I'm afraid the information you see is a bit of a time machine and you are traveling back in time a decade or more.

Every year, I see a new post like this from someone who doesn't know that Parks and Scope City are long gone.

I wonder who keeps paying for their respective domain name renewals (with a domain name registrar)? If the domain name expires then that takes it out of the DNS servers. The server wouldn't have to be turned off; it simply couldn't be reached.

Bob F.
That's a good and interesting point.

Checking out the WhoIs for the domain, it was last "updated" Aug-09-2019, and now expires Aug-26-2021, so I suspect it was renewed for 2 years at the time.

It's possible the owners could be keeping it alive, "just in case", as the Registrant is still listed as Parks Optical Inc.
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Re: Parks Gold Series

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KingNothing13 wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:24 pm
BFaucett wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:14 am
Don Pensack wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:26 pm Parks closed their doors in 2012 and none of the products you see on the site are available.
In fact, all their products were sold or destroyed.
The website is still up due to a quirk in a very old architecture for the site.
There are several websites that still do business that use the same obsolete website architecture and the server farm can't shut down that one server without shutting down those businesses.
There is no one left who remembers how to shut down just one site in the server, so the Scope City and Parks websites are still up (though you cannot place an order).
I'm afraid the information you see is a bit of a time machine and you are traveling back in time a decade or more.

Every year, I see a new post like this from someone who doesn't know that Parks and Scope City are long gone.

I wonder who keeps paying for their respective domain name renewals (with a domain name registrar)? If the domain name expires then that takes it out of the DNS servers. The server wouldn't have to be turned off; it simply couldn't be reached.

Bob F.
That's a good and interesting point.

Checking out the WhoIs for the domain, it was last "updated" Aug-09-2019, and now expires Aug-26-2021, so I suspect it was renewed for 2 years at the time.

It's possible the owners could be keeping it alive, "just in case", as the Registrant is still listed as Parks Optical Inc.
If the renewal is done by an automated payment….
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Re: Parks Gold Series

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notFritzArgelander wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:50 pm
KingNothing13 wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:24 pm
BFaucett wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:14 am


I wonder who keeps paying for their respective domain name renewals (with a domain name registrar)? If the domain name expires then that takes it out of the DNS servers. The server wouldn't have to be turned off; it simply couldn't be reached.

Bob F.
That's a good and interesting point.

Checking out the WhoIs for the domain, it was last "updated" Aug-09-2019, and now expires Aug-26-2021, so I suspect it was renewed for 2 years at the time.

It's possible the owners could be keeping it alive, "just in case", as the Registrant is still listed as Parks Optical Inc.
If the renewal is done by an automated payment….
I had that thought as well, but after 8+ years, I would hope someone would notice and stop the auto-payment (even if it is domain name renewal, which is a pretty small fee). And if it is on a credit card, no card has an expiration date that far into the future. Mine all all about 3-5 years.

Maybe their host has a bank that they paid into, and it is pulling from that. /shrug

There are far too many options though for us, who are not "in the know" to be speculating on.
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