What happened to linuxbox.com? | Linux Today

What happened to linuxbox.com?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 15, 1999

Lalo Martins writes:

“I had a page at linuxbox (a nice site that offered free hosting
for Free Software projects) for a project of mine, and people
started to complain they couldn’t get to my page. I couldn’t, either. Today
I decided to try to find out, and I found out I can’t get even to
their own pagehost
linuxbox.com
gives me Nameserver not responding.

Anyone knows what happened?”

LinuxBox.com hit the net on January 13th, and is currently not
responding to DNS queries. LT readers will be reminded that VA
Research announced yesterday that
they offer free hosting to open source projects. –lt ed

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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