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The last cached version of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, or CREA, was March 28, 2006. I've been using the Way Back Machine for earlier website versions for my recent research, and tried to connect to the current website this morning for the first time in about a week.

With Gale Norton's sudden departure from Interior, I have an ominous feeling CREA's web disappearance is not arbitrary.

I predict indictments of Italia Federici and/or Steven Griles very soon.

Update: The host iphqsw0036atl2.public.registeredsite.com, which is what the (probably) vhosted crea-online.org PTR points to, is up. The registration for crea-online.org doesn't expire until 14/01/2007. The authoritative nameservers {a,b,c}.ns.interland.net aren't answering for crea-online.org, so as of now crea-online.org exists only in caching nameservers at ISPs near you ... for another couple of days or hours. The machines are in the Interland Atlanta colo, and they're VLAN'd down-stream from Savvis @ Atlanta.

In short, there's no earthy technical or i forgot my domain name renewal or my sodding network is down reason why CREA is off-line. The node is returning ICMP echo requests. Every network infrastructure element and corporation in the path from the cloud to the node is humming a happy tune. Someone pushed a policy button and turned of nameservice, and packet filtering for tcp and udp (but not icmp).

I've written Jared Carpenter, who's the crea-online.org registrant and admin PoC, and asked if he needs technical assistance.

Registrant ID:27626987-NSI
Registrant Name:Jerod Carpenter
Registrant Organization:Jerod Carpenter
Registrant Street1:1429 G Street NW #408
Registrant Phone:+1.62629655
Registrant Email:crea2@EARTHLINK.NET

He may not think that ours is a friendly offer. ebw.