HCL Notebooks (Toshiba's Home page in india) is OFFLINE

My company is a partner for Toshiba laptops and yesterday we had to submit some quotes, for which we needed a clarification from Toshiba's website. www.hclnotebooks.com the site which is dedicated to toshiba laptops in india is offline. This brings me to a great part, where everyone asks why should you host with System3 (which is an expensive host) and not with other cheaper hosting providers, well the following Whois - Domain registration details for the domain will show you the whole story

Domain Name: HCLNOTEBOOKS.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.tucows.com
Name Server: NS2.CYBERSPACEWEBHOST.COM
Name Server: NS1.CYBERSPACEWEBHOST.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Status: REGISTRAR-HOLD
EPP Status: clientDeleteProhibited
EPP Status: clientUpdateProhibited
EPP Status: clientHold
EPP Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 18-May-2006
Creation Date: 17-May-2005
Expiration Date: 17-May-2007

The part to note here is, the domain actually was never registered in the rightful owners name, a practice followed by most of the hosting companies in India,

Registrant:
Netprophets Cyberworks Pvt Ltd.
Z-17, Haus Khas
New Delhi, Delhi 110016
IN

Domain name: HCLNOTEBOOKS.COM

Administrative Contact:
Rajpal, Saurabh saurabh@netprophetsglobal.com
Z-17, Haus Khas
New Delhi, Delhi 110016
IN
+91-11-52654781

Sadly, HCL being one of the larger IT companies in India may have not even realised what they were walking into, or maybe the person who took this decision, did find System 3 to be stupid when it asks for a higher cost, to host the same site. Anyway, for the time being, you can enjoy the screenshot above, if you are thinking of buying the Toshiba laptop. :)

So.. hosting is not all about money, it is about how it is done, and how it is handled.

Take care.. and enjoy your weekend.

G