Whatever the specific cause of this, it does rather underline the
impression that OCLC doesn't take this site very seriously.  I
concluded some time back that it's a mistake to write OpenURL software
to rely on the contents of the registry.  Shame.

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Sol Lederman writes:
 > I wouldn't assume that the DNS entry has been hijacked. I very recently had
 > this same experience with a domain I work on. It got redirected to a parking
 > page. I thought it had been hijacked. It turned out that the hosting
 > provider had accidentally changed the IP address associated with the domain
 > and that that had somehow caused the site to go to the parking page.
 > 
 > Sol
 > 
 > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Klein, Michael <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 > 
 > > openurl.info's domain registration looks up to date...Registered to NISO
 > > through 12-May-2010. Last updated 10-May-2009. I'm going to speculate (with
 > > very little basis) that someone managed to hijack the DNS by pointing the
 > > record's name server entries somewhere other than where they're supposed to
 > > be. Hence the redirection to a fraudulent parking page.
 > >
 > > Michael
 > >
 > > --
 > > Michael B. Klein
 > > Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
 > > Boston Public Library
 > > (617) 859-2391
 > > [log in to unmask]
 > >
 > >
 > > > From: "Walker, David" <[log in to unmask]>
 > > > Reply-To: "Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>"
 > > > <[log in to unmask]>
 > > > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:05:03 -0700
 > > > To: "Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>" <
 > > [log in to unmask]>
 > > > Subject: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?
 > > >
 > > > It appears that the openurl.info domain name has expired.  I get an
 > > error from
 > > > the host:
 > > >
 > > >     http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx
 > > >
 > > > I've been using the registry at OCLC as a reference source for OpenURL.
 > >  But
 > > > all of the identifiers and links pointing to openurl.info no longer
 > > work.
 > > >
 > > >    http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets
 > > >
 > > > Is there a different place I should be going now for OpenURL info
 > > instead?  Or
 > > > maybe this is just a snafu?
 > > >
 > > > --Dave
 > > >
 > > > ==================
 > > > David Walker
 > > > Library Web Services Manager
 > > > California State University
 > > > http://xerxes.calstate.edu
 > >