Whatever the specific cause of this, it does rather underline the impression that OCLC doesn't take this site very seriously. I concluded some time back that it's a mistake to write OpenURL software to rely on the contents of the registry. Shame.
_/|_ ___________________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <m...@indexdata.com> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM (1943, also attributed 1958). Sol Lederman writes: > I wouldn't assume that the DNS entry has been hijacked. I very recently had > this same experience with a domain I work on. It got redirected to a parking > page. I thought it had been hijacked. It turned out that the hosting > provider had accidentally changed the IP address associated with the domain > and that that had somehow caused the site to go to the parking page. > > Sol > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Klein, Michael <mkl...@bpl.org> wrote: > > > openurl.info's domain registration looks up to date...Registered to NISO > > through 12-May-2010. Last updated 10-May-2009. I'm going to speculate (with > > very little basis) that someone managed to hijack the DNS by pointing the > > record's name server entries somewhere other than where they're supposed to > > be. Hence the redirection to a fraudulent parking page. > > > > Michael > > > > -- > > Michael B. Klein > > Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian > > Boston Public Library > > (617) 859-2391 > > mkl...@bpl.org > > > > > > > From: "Walker, David" <dwal...@calstate.edu> > > > Reply-To: "Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>" > > > <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> > > > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:05:03 -0700 > > > To: "Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>" < > > CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> > > > Subject: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ? > > > > > > It appears that the openurl.info domain name has expired. I get an > > error from > > > the host: > > > > > > http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx > > > > > > I've been using the registry at OCLC as a reference source for OpenURL. > > But > > > all of the identifiers and links pointing to openurl.info no longer > > work. > > > > > > http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets > > > > > > Is there a different place I should be going now for OpenURL info > > instead? Or > > > maybe this is just a snafu? > > > > > > --Dave > > > > > > ================== > > > David Walker > > > Library Web Services Manager > > > California State University > > > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > >
