AI
Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:53:00 AM
I am speculating just like every other individual posting on this board. Nobody has any true facts. Only speculations. When the company says they are closing the door with this stock that is fact and can't be disputed. Anything other than this is only speculation.
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Let me preface this post stating I have no dog in this race. I have never held any shares in OPMG, nor do I plan on investing in this stock. I was approached by GCRC to look into the issue with the websites being down. I have no personal relationship GCRC, he merely saw me post concerning technical issues with a website on a different board here on iHub, and asked if I would look into this.
I am Network Administrator with certifications from both Microsoft and CompTIA. I develop and maintain websites as a side business, and am very familiar with website protocol and design.
The following is what I found concerning OPMG's website (Please note that I may oversimplify in some cases to make what I found easier to understand. If you are more technically inclined and have questions about my findings, please ask):
With any domain, you have a few components - the url, the server hosting the site, and the DNS. The url is what we type in to get to a website (optionsmedia.com), the server hosting the site is an IP (207.150.204.40), and DNS is the service that tells your computer what server IP address to look at to get the url you typed in. DNS is complicated and often not understood. DNS is a tiered system, with Master-Level DNS servers, Reciprocating Servers, ISP Servers, all the way down to the local computer that has it's own DNS settings.
I go through all of that because optionsmedia.com is one big convoluted mess. First, let me address email, because that is the easiest part: their MX record for email points to google mail servers, meaning that they should still be receiving emails. The easiest way to know if your email is getting through is if you send one and don't receive anything back (like a message from postmater@ or mail-daemon@). 99% of the time that's a pretty good indication that the email got to where it was supposed to go. If you are receiving bounce-back messages from google servers, that's a good indication that they have shut down their google accounts.
The WHOIS database lists the registration info for domains. Optionsmedia.com expires on 10-7-13 and was last updated on 10-9-12. I can't tell what change was made at that time, but typically it is the Domain Servers. That's where things get weird. Their Domain servers are using noip.com, which is a service that allows you to host a website on your server without paying for a static IP. The service runs on your computer and updates the DNS servers if your ISP changes your IP address. This allows your website to stay up with limited downtime. This type of service is not recommended for websites and falls outside of industry best-practices.
The next step is to look at the IP address that the noip.com servers are pointing you to for the optionsmedia.com webpage, which came out to be 207.150.204.40. Enter more oddities. That IP address is owned by Hostway.com, which is a web hosting company. They bought out Affinity Internet in Ft. Lauderdale FL a few years back, which originally owned the IP address. Because it's a web hosting company, that would suggest that optionsmedia.com was a client of hostway.com and hosting their site with them. However, optionsmedia.com is the only website at that IP address, which is something you would almost never see from a hosting company. What's even more curious is that the ip address doesn't respond to ping requests, which a hosting server would almost always do.
That is everything I can prove factually. Below is my best guess as to what is going on:
Most likely hostway.com has leased a range of IP addresses to an Internet service provider, and 207.150.204.40 is the one given to Options Media by said ISP. Options Media has in turn put a server up at their facility to host their own webpage. Since that IP address is dead (no website and no ping) Chances are the server was taken offline. The biggest confirmation that things are shut down is the email reply. You're basically talking about a premium gmail account that they are using. If that's down, then they've either cancelled their email accounts or failed to pay google.
I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Email to St. Clair (dead email address)
