Easy Come, Easy Go

I wasn't sure I was going to post about it, but since someone brought it up in the comments, the www.chinaradiousers.com site has been down for several days - maybe even a week. I could make arguments both ways about the usefulness of a site specific to Chinese radios, but was going to give it a chance. For a new site, it seemed to have a little momentum going.

The site currently says:

"Site

will be back up within 24 hours

We are moving to a different faster server "

I had noticed there was an earlier error message about some trial software expiring. I was kinda assuming that http://www.kightradio.com was responsible for setting it up, since it was promoted there. I went to verify the owner with a whois lookup, but they have used a third party to protect their identity. (I do that, too, so I'm not implying there is anything fishy going on here.)

Domain Name: CHINARADIOUSERS.COM
Registrant: PrivacyProtect.org
Domain Admin (contact@privacyprotect.org)
ID#10760, PO Box 16

So, like many things internet or ham, it is probably someone's hobby. I'm sure they will get around to it eventually. And if not, the Yahoo groups and other ham forums are always there.