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#1 Post by series111 »

Hi :?
Just a quick anyone know I cannot get onto the dollywiki page.

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The site has been 'off-air' for quite awhile now, domain is paid up into December 2017 and is owned by a chap called John Crumpton who lives Suffolk way, website server appears to be a Google cloud based one, so I'm guessing the bill hasn't been paid or the owner has decided to shut up shop. The domain owners email address is there to be found if anyone wants to ask them, take a look at the whois for debenham.solutions though I suspect that email address may be dead too.
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Does that mean that all the items there are lost forever ?
Can they be rescued anyhow ?
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I take it that name doesn't ring any bells with anyone on the forum then? Kind of assumed that the Dollywiki was run by someone on here. Tell you what, I'll email the registrant and see if I get a reply.
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#5 Post by vitessesteve »

what was the site name? Please post a link on here.

It may be that a cached version exists somewhere like: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/

was it https://dollywiki.co.uk/
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bet google has cached it. i'm happy to host a static copy for free if needed
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vitessesteve wrote:what was the site name? Please post a link on here.

It may be that a cached version exists somewhere like: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/

was it https://dollywiki.co.uk/
I thought exactly the same, so went hunting on the internet archive and unfortunately they haven't trawled the site past the frontpage, which is a bit odd as the robots file allows it:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ww ... ki.co.uk/*

The UK web Archive possibly doesn't crawl Google hosted sites (as this was) as they restrict themselves to the UK eventhough it is a .co.uk domain, or that it went offline before they could.

Thought I'd check for a Google cache version, nope:

http://cachedview.com/

Quite frustrating to draw a blank with my usual go to tools. Reverse IP lookup on Dollywiki DNS entry came back as debenham.solutions, hence looking up whois for that and seeing that it has the same name as the contact for dollywiki.co.uk, but no reply from the email address given. Have asked the registrar if they can help but not heard from them yet.

Don't want to seem like a crazy stalker(!) but just looked up the registrant's address on google street view and there is a white Dolomite Sprint sat on the drive so definitely the right person.
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Galileo wrote:..... but just looked up the registrant's address on google street view and there is a white Dolomite Sprint sat on the drive so definitely the right person.
We live in scary times. Facebook anyone? Tory snoopers charter?
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GTS290N wrote:
Galileo wrote:..... but just looked up the registrant's address on google street view and there is a white Dolomite Sprint sat on the drive so definitely the right person.
We live in scary times. Facebook anyone? Tory snoopers charter?
You're not wrong there at all. There's an old quote from years ago (don't recall the source) about that the likes of how MI5, CIA and KGB used to go to great lengths to compile dossiers on people, and yet now we just hand it all over willingly to Facebook.
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I posted a couple of Jonners' contributions elsewhere on this forum so it isn't totally lost. It saves us having to pester him considering his current state of health.
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#11 Post by Toledo Man »

I printed off the SU carb guide many moons ago. I found it between the pages of my Haynes manual yesterday so that's another article from the Dollywiki we can rescue.
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Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of the month at 8.00pm at The Railway, 1 Birstall Lane, Drighlington, Bradford, BD11 1JJ

2003 Volvo XC90 D5 SE (PX53 OVZ - The daily driver)
2009 Mercedes-Benz W204 C200 CDI Sport (BJ58 NCV - The 2nd car)
1991 Toyota Celica GT (J481 ONB - a project car)
Former stable of SAY 414M (1974 Toledo), GRH 244D (1966 1300fwd), CDB 324L (1973 1500fwd), GGN 573J (1971 1500fwd), DCP 625S (1977 Dolomite 1300) & LCG 367N (1975 Dolomite Sprint), NYE 751L (1972 Dolomite 1850 auto) plus 5 Acclaims and that's just the Triumphs!

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Here is another article for the collection: http://vitessesteve.co.uk/IgnitionBallastRemoval
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