Niemann wrote:
Sorry I'm late to the party (actually working on a new MacScene on and off again the last couple months).
Long story, but _Em is right about Emuscene's demise. Back in 2008 we lost the domain name for emuscene when the company we had it registered through vanished and became completely unresponsive (even took my $11/yr. registration fee and never responded). We lost everything almost over night when the domain was suddenly transferred to a new company shortly after they became unresponsive.
This led to the creation of MacScene.
Glad you were able to find some backup of Emulation.net.
That's a pain!
I used a scummy (popular) domain rego service for another domain and IMO they basically stole it. I was overseas, it was paid up using my Aussie credit card (which expired) and they never told me that the payment bounced. First I know of it, my main e-mail address (which I checked every day) was down and the website was gone. Like... goooone! On the day that my e-mail failed, somebody (affiliated with the hosting company) already owned the domain. This was maybe ~12 years ago.
Out of interest I checked what happened to it a few months ago. My previous domain rego company is STILL squatting on it, but not they want me to pay ~$20,000 to buy it back. I had a long phone conversation with them where I was like 'but literally nobody else will ever want this... it is a play on my name... I'm happy to pay $200 or something but nobody will give you $20,000... you stole it from me and this is messed up!!!'
Oddly, they now call me on a semi-regular basis trying to sell it to me for $20,000. I'll never use that host ever again. IMO it was the scummiest thing to do and it's REALLY annoying how they can just sit on it like that without using it.