status of veronicadrakeagency.com

http://dmoz.org/Business/Arts_and_Entertainment/Fashion/Modeling/Agents_and_Agencies/North_America/ 01/15/04.

http://www.veronicadrakeagency.com/ shows no record of submission in that category.

Having said that... When I visit the URL, it appears to be dead.

J

That's strange it shouldn't be. I'll check into this.

Dead from this end as well.

Plus you can just imagine Murphy's law.

"An ODP editor will always visit a site during the single 60-second period it was down during the previous two months!"

It's not just down from what I can see, no such domain name exists.

Ok I just found out whats going on. The person who is responsible for maintaining our Internet website infrastructure never renewed the domains owned by our company because his assistant threw out correspondences from the company which provides our website hosting services because she thought it was junk mail and as a result all of the domains including public and private were expired and ultimately deleted. We are in the process of settling any overdue payments with this company and are now in the process of attempting to bring our site back online which should be in about a week or so to allow the IP addresses to propagate throughout the Internet after which we should be back online which brings up the question should I wait six more months after the site comes back online before I resubmit for review and possible inclusion in the ODP.

H. Ross Franklin, Senior Vice President Operations
The Veronica Drake Agency, Inc.

I seriously think you should buy that domain immediately. Like now, when you read the message, not tomorrow.

There is nothing to stop me or anyone buying it now and then you are out of luck. It would only cost me around $7

In my opinion, once the site is up and you are comfortable hat it has propagated, feel free to submit.

Then wait 30 days and do your initial status check.

Then, if necessary, once every six months after that. (Or, you can wait until the heads stop rolling, which ever is longer!)

Ah, that Murphy fellow really gets around, doesn't he?