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- <h1>The website might be coming back up</h1>
- <p>Day 00194: Thursday, 2015 September 17</p>
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- I found another website that claims to redirect traffic from your domain to any website of your choosing, but it claims my email address is invalid.
- The website also offers gratis email accounts (where was this website when I needed it?), but after registering an email account, the new email address was also rejected as invalid.
- If the website is claiming that even email addresses on their own servers at their own domain are invalid, it's probably going to claim all email addresses are invalid.
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- Next, I tried crawling back to Namecheap.
- I left them because they started serving Tor users Cloudflare <abbr title="Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart">CAPTCHA</abbr> pages, but their gratis <abbr title="Domain Name System">DNS</abbr> service also provides <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> (and maybe <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure">HTTPS</abbr>) redirects.
- I begrudgingly filled out the <abbr title="Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart">CAPTCHA</abbr>, but when I went to register an account, Namecheap refused to allow me to set up an account on the grounds that I am using an anonymous proxy.
- I was willing to meet them half-way by filling out the <abbr title="Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart">CAPTCHA</abbr> that they serve only to proxy users, but I refuse to let down my proxy to deal with these people.
- Requiring someone to reach you without an anonymous proxy is a direct attack on security, anonymity, and privacy.
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- Next, I registered an account at freedns.ws.
- They claim to have "domain name redirection", which I was hoping meant <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> redirection.
- However, when I tried to add records for my domain, I found that their system had no support for the <code>//st.</code> <abbr title="Top Level Domain">TLD</abbr>.
- They blocked the records, claiming that they were incomplete unless I added a ".com" to the end of the domain name, which would obviously specified the wrong domain.
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- Though it has disadvantages, I set up an account at afraid.org.
- They provide <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> redirects, but they do not provide redirects over <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure">HTTPS</abbr> and they allow other people to register a subdomain under your domain.
- It's a price I'm willing to pay for the time being though.
- If they offered redirects over <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure">HTTPS</abbr>, I would probably use the paid version though to prevent random usage of my subdomains.
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- Lastly, I tried to set up a Wordpress weblog.
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- Lastly for the day, I updated my Credit Union accounts from Springfield to use my new postal address.
- The First Tech Federal Credit Union was slow as usual, and it was difficult to find the log in page (I had to do a Web search for it, it doesn't seem to be accessible from the home page), but once logged in, everything went smoothly.
- The Oregon Community Credit Union website on the other hand kept giving me trouble.
- In some places, it was refusing to accept my password, then locking up my account for twenty minutes at a time due to an "incorrect password".
- After much frustration, I found that while the Oregon Community Credit Union website puts a thirty-two character cap on password length, one part of the website uses a different cap.
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- I received notice that I owe Josh Woodward another ten dollars for music, as he has just put out a new post on Patreon.
- This time, instead of paying $10 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> for a single song, it seems I'm paying only $10 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> for a set of thirty short preludes.
- But here's the catch: these songs are proprietary! They are under the <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial">CC BY-NC</abbr> license, meaning that I am funding evilly-licensed music that I don't even get to listen to.
- I am very disappointed with Woodward on this one.
- If he wants to release his music as proprietary, that's bad enough, but to charge his Patreon supporters for it is a new level of bad.
- I'll bite my tongue on this one though.
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- At the end of the day, <a href="http://wowana.me/">wowaname</a> offered to set up a place for my website on her server, complete with <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure">HTTPS</abbr>.
- If she does that, I can keep links I've paid Josh Woodward for from breaking, as well as keep the <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> I stamp on dollar bills valid.
- If this doesn't work out though, I might just give up.
- I'm under too much stress as it is, and I don't need to keep the search for a Web host in my burden.
- As usual, being paranoid, I dread the worst outcome even when it appears the solution to my problem is just around the corner.
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