lostchord posted at 7:58AM Sun, 21 January 2018 - #4322652

@John_Mathews "Large companies have policies and protocols"

Indeed they do. And this is why the relatively short lifetimes of the domain name registrations of Cornucopis3D and e-onsoftware made since Bentley took over are interesting. Do some whois lookups.

Not certain whether you believe I should do one whois lookup, or several? However, I did that toward the middle of the month when it became apparent E-on's website wasn't coming back up any time soon.

I wouldn't know whether it was a "long" or "relatively short" lifetime, regarding their domain name registration, but E-on Software's domain was registered from 7-1-98 until 6-30-18. 20 years doesn't seem like a "relatively short time" despite the domain name's expiration in June of this year. Their DNS servers are running, it would seem. Perhaps their procedure will be to renew their respective domain names prior to June, yes? Cornucopia3D's domain name has been in effect since 2004, it would appear, and may expire in May of 2018 if, of course, they don't renew.

Since you sound knowledgeable regarding the subject perhaps you can shed some light on the domain name renewal process, length of time for which a domain name can be renewed, the cost of doing so, and how long such a process might take?

It seems highly unlikely that either domain would not be renewed by Bently/E-ON. There is no evidence of anything nefarious or suspicious afoot.