Paula Sanders opened this issue on Sep 14, 2015 ยท 38 posts
lostchord posted Sun, 21 January 2018 at 10:04 PM
John_Matthews posted at 2:06PM Mon, 22 January 2018 - #4322666
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.
I did the following lookups:
Dates 8,826 days old Created on 1993-11-22 Expires on 2021-11-21 Updated on 2017-11-03
Name Server(s) NS1-07.AZURE-DNS.COM (has 60,191 domains) NS2-07.AZURE-DNS.NET (has 98 domains)
Dates 776 days old Created on 2015-12-07 Expires on 2018-05-23 Updated on 2017-09-18
Name Server(s) NS1-09.AZURE-DNS.COM (has 60,191 domains) NS2-09.AZURE-DNS.NET (has 98 domains)
Dates 2,866 days old Created on 2010-03-18 Expires on 2018-12-31 Updated on 2017-09-18
Name Server(s) BHS.E-ONSOFTWARE.COM (has 3 domains) RBX.E-ONSOFTWARE.COM (has 3 domains)
Dates 776 days old Created on 2015-12-07 Expires on 2018-06-29 Updated on 2017-03-05
Name Server(s) NS1-01.AZURE-DNS.COM (has 60,191 domains) NS2-01.AZURE-DNS.NET (has 98 domains)
Dates 2,866 days old Created on 2010-03-18 Expires on 2019-01-01 Updated on 2017-03-05
Name Server(s) BHS.E-ONSOFTWARE.COM (has 3 domains) RBX.E-ONSOFTWARE.COM (has 3 domains) **
What I find interesting is that Bentley seem to be renewing on a four year cycle (assuming the last update was a renewal) and it would be far simpler from an administrative perspective to renew all domain names at the same time. They have all been transferred to the same registrar I think so this would be really simple to do. But the recent updates to Cornucopia3d seem to have been for some different reason. Note that the redirects for e-on and cornucopia3d seem to be going to designated dns servers which is also odd.
So maybe they are not going to renew the domains. Nothing bad about that although you would want to hang onto them for a while to cover the transition period and May of this year is not that far away for cornucopia3d.com. Maybe they are trying to integrate with the Bentley site - LumenRT is there already - and it has gone pear shaped...well that should not kill off the old sites and normal services can be resumed while you lick your wounds and get ready to try again.
The only reasons for an extended outage are either (1) the site and all its data is lost...including backups... or (2) extreme incompetence managing an upgrade, or, finally (3) they are in the process of dumping it.