Alas, BladeVault is No More

Sunday, February 8, 2009 in General by slowe | 4 comments

It doesn’t take long these days: yesterday the bladevault.info and bladevault.com domains, owned by friend and colleague Aaron Delp, expired. Today they were picked up by an unknown registrant and are serving up ads.

Fortunately, Aaron’s moved most of his content over to his new blog, and is also contributing great blade-related material here, such as these two recent articles:

Blades and Virtualization Aren’t Mutually Exclusive: Part One, HP Power Sizing
Blades and Virtualization Aren’t Mutually Exclusive: Part Two, IBM Power Sizing

Aaron’s already told me that there’s more in store for this series of articles, and I’m looking forward to his continued analysis of the benefits of blades and virtualization together.

So, if you visit bladevault.info and can’t find what you’re looking for, have a trip over to Aaron’s new blog home and look there. Farewell, BladeVault…

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  1. Colin McNamara’s avatar

    Colin McNamara on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    ICANN has a 30 day redemption grace period put in place to deal with domain sniping (what just occurred). It may be worth Aaron pinging his registrar to get the old domains back.

  2. slowe’s avatar

    slowe on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    I think it was actually Aaron’s intention to let them expire and instead focus on his new blog location and content here, rather than maintaining his own site. It’s just funny how quickly the domain snipers work.

  3. adelp’s avatar

    adelp on Monday, February 9, 2009 at 12:21 am

    Hey Colin and Scott - Yeah, I let them expire. They are (were) registered through GoDaddy so it doesn’t surprise me that they snagged it for themselves to get some additional ad revenue.

    I have been off line most of the day celebrating my birthday with my family. I didn’t even know it was gone until I saw this post! :)

    To make a very long story very short…. I didn’t want to deal with the admin hassle of a site and the contract was up for the site and the domain. I really didn’t want to spend the money to renew it.

  4. slowe’s avatar

    slowe on Monday, February 9, 2009 at 7:23 am

    Happy birthday, dude! I recall you saying that you planned to let them expire, so I wasn’t really surprised that they were gone–just surprised that they were picked up again so quickly.

    Besides, with BladeVault gone now I get all your great content! :-)