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DDO.com domain expired, can't get into game.
Rumbaar
Member Posts: 39
Seems Turbine forgot a big thing, and that was to make sure the ddo.com domain was kept renewed.
The DDO launcher, tied to the domain new section, fails to load and hence no-one can get in. Forums and site are down.
Over a weekend, shame Turbine, shame.
Maybe make the launcher not tied into the website, so the game can be still access when stuff like this happens.
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Ha, it's true.
Quick! Someone buy it up and ransom it back!
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Seems they've remember to do something, 2 days after expiration.
Ooops!
LOL- If true this is the funniest shit ever.
Most of these domains have 'locks' in place that prevent that. But it would have been so funny ... well not for anyone that wanted to actually play the game ...
What would be real funny if somebody came along and snatched up that address and held it for ransom. They could make a killing.
For those having problems the steps posted below from another user on their google+ account:
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Find the hosts file on your computer in the following directory
C:windowssystem32driversetc
open the file and add the following entries
74.201.102.43 www.ddo.com
74.201.102.42 forums.ddo.com
74.201.102.13 gls.ddo.com
74.201.102.13 gls-auth.ddo.com
74.201.102.11 patch.ddo.com
74.201.102.11 serviceengine.turbine.com
Note that there is a tab between the ip address and the web address
Note that you may have to change the file premissions so you can save the file
Once you have added those entries and saved the changes to the file, restart your ddo client and after a short update you will be back in game
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This worked for me though it did update the patcher about 5 times. My guess is so that it could download a fix where you don't need the host entries
Holy cow, that's crazy stuff right there. I really hope it's just a miscommunications thing.
Thanks, this seems to have worked!
Nice fix george99, it's funny how the players have to constantly find fixes to Turbines issues.
Having to do this, reminds me of the days when people used to host their own web sites on their computers and had to 'trick' web sites into visiting the right IP.
Actually, according to ICANN, cybersquatting is illegal so it wouldn't pan out too well for someone that tried to do that.
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ROFL. This one is a classic.
Even Turbine forgetting about their legacy games from time to time.
ok got it working. you have to add these entries to the "hosts" file in the directory path mentioned above. open this file with notepad, add the above ip entries after the "local hosts" entries. when you add them do not use the # symbol at the beggining of the entry. you might see it used for all the other entries. when i removed this symbol and saved the file it worked. i copied and pasted the entries above and it automatically added the # symbol.