Tmot99's website is down

Zoins

@tmot99's website http://1893columbianexpo.com is down now.

Hopefully this is just temporary for Tom's site as there was a lot of valuable information there on So-Called Dollars and Eglit medals for the Columbian Expo.

Can anyone get in touch with him to get this up and running again? He hasn't logged in here since Jan 6.

I've noticed a growing number of great reference websites going down which has been sad for me to see.

JoeCorrado

Not just down, but seems to be available for sale. Not a good sign.

Hemispherical

Doesn’t expire until 2020. He may have registered another domain name and found another registrar and/or host?

Domain Name: 1893columbianexpo.com
Registry Domain ID: 480999391_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2019-03-04T16:20:00Z
Creation Date: 2006-06-11T13:05:45Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-01-21T11:59:59Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC

U1chicago

It’s not the best solution, but using the web archive will let you see some of the pages:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180329081903/http://1893columbianexpo.com/

BStrauss3

Contact me page archive has email / voice

https://web.archive.org/web/20161017132959/http://1893columbianexpo.com/contact_me.html

CaptHenway

@Zoins said:
@tmot99's website http://1893columbianexpo.com is down now.

Hopefully this is just temporary for Tom's site as there was a lot of valuable information there on So-Called Dollars and Eglit medals for the Columbian Expo.

Can anyone get in touch with him to get this up and running again? He hasn't logged in here since Jan 6.

I've noticed a growing number of great reference websites going down which has been sad for me to see.

One reason why I like books.

Zoins

@CaptHenway said:

@Zoins said:
@tmot99's website http://1893columbianexpo.com is down now.

Hopefully this is just temporary for Tom's site as there was a lot of valuable information there on So-Called Dollars and Eglit medals for the Columbian Expo.

Can anyone get in touch with him to get this up and running again? He hasn't logged in here since Jan 6.

I've noticed a growing number of great reference websites going down which has been sad for me to see.

One reason why I like books.

I agree. I think PDF publications can survive better than websites as well which is why I like the ANS Magazine and Mint Error News, not that they are going anywhere, along with others.

• 2017, Nov 1. “Joseph Mayer and the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition: Dollars, Spoons, Tower Clocks and Telegraph Keys” by Paul Middents
• 2015 “Full Step Jefferson Nickels: A Re-Evaluation” by Gary S. Dykes, ANA #3179303, WBCC #578

I've seen numerous reference websites go under that it's sad. I've been wanting to create a project to revive some of them from Archive.org.

keets

just do what Tom says, buy the freakin' book.

while I admit to being online every day and streaming with a FireStick I am not as potentially helpless as most people will be whenever there's a large scale catastrophe. the world of today will be paralyzed whenever that happens. oh the horror, I can't use my cell phone!!!

Zoins

@keets said:
just do what Tom says, buy the freakin' book.

I buy lots of books, in PDF format (like Rulau) or for the Kindle (many)

I’ve offered to help authors move their books to the Kindle and have even converted chapters for them. I’m also in the process of publishing my own books in PDF and on the Kindle.

Also, for many websites I have visited, there is no book to buy, just a labor of love that is no longer here

keets

the SC$ website which tmot99 hosted also shows an expired security certificate when I try to visit it.

Hemispherical

@tmot99 last logged in to the forum was 6 Jan of this year.

https://forums.collectors.com/profile/tmot99

Maybe his friend at Old World Coin has some info on @tmot99?

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/883752/b-amp-m-store-goes-online-www-owcoin-com

Zoins

@Hemispherical said:
@tmot99 last logged in to the forum was 6 Jan of this year.

https://forums.collectors.com/profile/tmot99

Last logged in as of Aug 19, 2022 now.

Maybe his friend at Old World Coin has some info on @tmot99?

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/883752/b-amp-m-store-goes-online-www-owcoin-com

Ah, good to know! His friend's store has an amazing track record!

Old World Coin
Phone: 815-344-8800
Address: 1301 N. Riverside Drive McHenry, IL 60050
Website: https://www.owcoin.com/
Ebay Store: https://www.ebay.com/str/oldworldcoinshop (22k items sold, 100% Positive Feedback)

Zoins

Just checked the site again and it looks like the domain is no longer pointing to a site.

Archive.org is decent, but I've found that it can miss a lot of pages and images.

It would be great if NNP could archive websites with photos.

lilolme

@Zoins I am not sure if this will be helpful but in the forum Resources thread there is a SCD website listed:

https://socalleddollar.com

While there are links to various SCD searches there is one for Columbian Expo:

https://socalleddollar.com/worldcol.html

This page has the listings and a links to images. Also near the top is a link to all images.

At the top of the page is another link to a page that is supposed to have the Eglit noted in the OP.

https://socalleddollar.com/WCEStoreCards.html

It is noted that this page has no images but that some can be found at the noted links. One of those links is for the Tom Hoffmans world columbian web site (now located at):

https://web.archive.org/web/20130505205503/http://www.1893columbianexpo.com/index.html

I believe this is probably the Archive location noted above.

telephoto1

The domain is parked, not for sale. This could imply that the owner is working on finding a new host or perhaps temporarily unable to keep paying for hosting fees. Edit to add: we had a problem early on when we picked a hosting service that decided to go belly up without telling anyone. I like SquareSpace personally-never have any problems. We maintain domain ownership via Enom.