I belong to another forum- Tyco Collector’s Forum, that I also enjoy. Imagine my suprise yesterday when I tried to navigate to their website and a different screen popped up, stating that the domain name had expired! Does anyone know anything about this, aside from the message screen I received? (sort of give one pause to think that books, magazines and writing a plain old letter have a bit more permanence that was previously thought…) Cedarwoodron
Looks like the fee wasn’t paid. I’m a member there too and I would hate to see it go.
Is it Tycoforums.com? That happened a while ago and I only go there occasionally but later was it was back
Just Googled - forum name expired 11/06/11, pending renewal or deletion. Apparently GoDaddy.com is keeping the site available for renewal. Didn’t try to enter it, just checked the Google listing.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
It wouldn’t do any good to try. You can’t enter the site until it’s been renewed.
If this is the forum you’re speaking of, it now appears to be active: http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/default.asp
Godaddy does a good job reminding you when your site is about to expire. You have to want to lose it for it to be missed, or the person running it sometimes expires him/herself.
The site appears to be back up to speed. All’s well that ends well…
Until next renewal. I hope the forum administrator has his(her) calendar marked.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Just a meaningless little post here, but I’m glad to see the Tyco forum back online. My first foray into HO scale model railroading was a Tyco train set back in 1968. Though I switched over to N scale over 25 years ago I still enjoy collecting early Tyco engines, cars and sets to display for nostalgic reasons.
The funny thing is, even though my first electric trains were Lionel, I still consider that first Tyco set to be the genesis of my model railroading hobby.
I guess I owe Tyco trains a big thanks for starting me on a life long and rewarding interest in scale model trains.