[stevebrot]

Many of us are periodic users of the adaptall-2 Web site and also remember when when the domain registration lapsed about 10 years ago with the content being migrated to a .org domain and then some years later when the name was reacquired to .com. Well, it appears that history is repeating itself with adaptall-2.com currently being "parked" at GoDaddy with whois showing ownership by Hqsoft Ltd in Hungary. Apparently the domain registration lapsed again at the end of May with the name being quickly acquired by another seeking to monetize residual traffic.
Edit: The situation is not clear from the whois alone. Hqsoft Ltd sponsors the MFlenses Web site as well and is a "good guy" player. The domain name expired on May 30 and is in a grace period before it becomes available for resale.

Does this mean the end of the road for this useful site outside of archive.org? Is there any news from the MFlenses Web site, the previous "rescuing" entity?

Note: The Adaptall-2 Web site has been a fairly comprehensive listing of Tamron Adaptall and Adaptall-2 lenses that included descriptions, specifications, and contemporary test results and is a favored reference for fans of those lenses.


Steve

(...mods may feel free to move this as seems desirable and wise...)

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Last edited by stevebrot; 06-04-2019 at 11:23 AM.

[luftfluss]

Dammit

[stevebrot]

For those who wish to bookmark the latest copy from the Wayback Machine at archive.org, the URL is...

Wayback Machine | adaptall-2.com 11 May 2019


Steve

[vonBaloney]

Funny, I just noticed that this morning, even though I hadn't looked at that site in ages. Hopefully they'll put it back up. (Somebody ought to alert them, or get the raw materials from them if they don't want to put it up again -- domain names are cheap.)

[stevebrot]

(Somebody ought to alert them, or get the raw materials from them if they don't want to put it up again -- domain names are cheap.)

I sent a message to the domain technical contact and also to HQ Design giving them a head's up. They should have until the end of the month to redeem with no penalty and hopefully will do so.


Steve

(I also tried to leave a message to the admins at MFLenses, but my login there no longer works. )

[marcusBMG]

I sent Attila (mflenses webmaster, owns the adaptall domain) a msg on mflenses.

UPDATE Attila says he has updated.

[stevebrot]

I sent Attila (mflenses webmaster, owns the adaptall domain) a msg on mflenses.

UPDATE Attila says he has updated.

Yay! I am wondering if he neglected to update contact e-mail addresses and did not get the notices?


Steve

[c.a.m]

@stevebrot and @marcusBMG, excellent work, guys. I do refer to that site, so it's great to have it back online.

Thanks!


- Craig

[ChrisPlatt]

That was good work guys!

Now can you please bring back Manual Focus Forum (forum.manualfocus.org) ?

Chris

[roberrl]

Thanks guys, I just looked at it a couple of weeks ago when I had major recurrence of my Adaptall LBA

[kayakfari]

Tamron Adaptall-2 lenses | Adaptall-2.com

working fine!