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Does ANYONE know what happened to Sapphire's Place? Is she okay?
Does anyone know if there are more chapters of "Of Masks And Marvels" than are listed at Whately? I've read all 28 that are posted and hoping to find more...or the rest?
Cathy.
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Erin and Piper
both have been in contact with Sapphire and are working to restore her presence on the net.
Love, Andrea Lena
28
Is all I've ever seen
Bek Corbin has put Masks and Marvels on semi-permanent hiatus
largely due to her getting sidetracked by working on Whateley back in the day and just never getting back to it.
I remember an "interview" on the Whateley pages some time back where she was talking about her abandoned/delayed series, and mentioned that if she went back to one of them Jordan would likely be her first protagonist to pick back up rather than Maxine.
Trust me, you're not the only one of us who wants to see just where the heck she was going with everything. I've got Ideas, but want to see them either confirmed or subverted, and it's looking more and more like neither one will ever happen.
Melanie E.
Registering for a Domain isn't as smooth as it should be
Don't remember all the big names advertising to register a domain for anyone wishing a presence on the web. The problem is if a person allows some of those companies to register the domain for them the company owns the domain not the person who requested it. They get a domain but basically it is leased back to them, they don't own it.
Which brings up the question is this what Sapphire did and if so the company she leased it from might be the real reason her site was taken down. Get rid of Sapphire and sell the traffic flow to someone else (usually questionable corporations selling widgets)
I'm happy to read Piper and Erin are working with her. Maybe her years of work and love can be saved. Hope it's true.
hugs people
always
Barb
Life is a gift, treasure it.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
domain ownership
afaik isn't person/company registering domain its owner and not registrar?
who-owns-your-domain
Honesty in the business place ...
Well, it's not as uncommon as a unicorn, but ...
Many not-so-honest web hosting services registered domain for their customers in their own name (ADMIN-C set to the hoster, not the customer) so the customer could not switch providers easily. At least in Germany this was not a legal way of conducting business but still veeery common.
On the other hand, there are quite a few services allowing you to register a domain and running the nameservice for you just the way you want it to. And there are also quite a few webhosters that allow you to use your own domains for webservices without hosting the nameservice with.
Domains are darn cheap, depending on the TLD you can get them for as little as 1.33 EUR per year (.space or .website, first year, promotion offer), and even common TLDs like .com are less than 10 EUR per year (regular price ...). And that includes registry fee and nameservice. And the provider I use is not the only one offering this kind of prices. Its a low price, high volume mass market offering, just like webhosting, and they rely on the high volume to generate enough revenue.
So, unless you have absolutely no money to spare at all, keeping a domain (or a dozen or more) is quite affordable. Unless you get tricked by one of the black sheep in the trade ...