HooBoy M4M Site Goes Offline/HBMC Moves to New Domain

[TampaYankee]

FYI

The well-known URL male4malescorts.com produces a web page with a handyman gif proclaiming the following notice:

[p class=info]We are sorry but the website "www.male4malescorts.com" is no longer available. The M4M Message Center has moved and can be found at:[/p]

[p class=title][a href=http://m4m.message-forum.net]http://m4m.message-forum.net[/a][/p]

[flguy]

Daddy has posted in the forum in regard to what is going on, if you believe what he says.

[Guest TakeTwo]

Daddy's posting in the "announcements" area of the forum creates more questions than it provides answers. If the "estate" controlled the demise of the site, then what will Daddy come back with? He claims a new version of the site, but would it not be like starting from scratch? I would think that all content (reviews) would be a part of the HooBoy site and are probably just scrubbed. Otherwise, why not just turn over the site to someone who wants to run it. It would appear that the site has been lost forever, imo.

[marcanthony]

>Daddy has posted in the forum in regard to what is going on,

>if you believe what he says.

It's an interesting post. I am not completely privy to the inner workings of that site, but I seem to recall that when Hooboy was alive, he posted on the site (and told me as well) that the ISP for the site WAS Daddy (and his company's servers).

if that's the case, not sure what it means that the site and the ISP could not reach an agreement. Or maybe it actually makes it very clear what it means.

[Guest TakeTwo]

> but I seem to recall that when

>Hooboy was alive, he posted on the site (and told me as well)

>that the ISP for the site WAS Daddy (and his company's

>servers).

>if that's the case, not sure what it means that the site and

>the ISP could not reach an agreement. Or maybe it actually

>makes it very clear what it means.

How long are typical agreements with ISP's and a website generally negotiated for? If Daddy has been trying to do this for the past 90 days as he seems to indicate, it would seem at least that their could have been some sort of warning ahead of time to site regulars that the site was soon to be shut down. This might explain why my two reviews of over 45 days ago were never published. It definitely explains why I registered here, but now think too much time might have passed to create new reviews for those never published at HooBoys.

It would be very sad indeed if all the review content has been lost to some Estate battle. It's all very curious if you ask me. Would you (the estate) keep a site running for over a year just to honor an ISP agreement? Are they that costly to break if you just wanted to shut a site down for whatever the reason?

[TampaYankee]

As a general principle we accept reviews for up to 120 days (4 mos) after engagements. Unless, there is ongoing research/uncertainty about a review, it is posted within ten days. Ususally sooner.

[TotallyOz]

A new version of the site would most likely carry all the reviews that Daddy worked on for the past year and 4 months. He did the work for them and that is partially his work product. That information did flow through the domain and the property of the estate but they reaped the rewards of Daddy's work for 16 months. I am not sure what arrangements were made between the two parties, as I was not privy to any of it.

I have to assume that the estate ceded the reviews to Daddy effective when he started posting his copyright on them after taking over site operations.

I know that Daddy will open up a site and has the database of escorts and reviewers. That will help him to start the site on the right foot. I would also think he has a legitimate claim to the reviews he posted over the last year. Both of the above is possibly litigable unless there were any written agreements.

As far as the ISP, the servers were hosted with Daddy and if you look at the whois records, you will see they are still on the same DNS server. I would assume that Daddy was talking about bandwidth. If so, I am not sure what contracts needed to be signed. It would depend on the company he was using for his bandwidth. Bandwidth is not free and must be paid for.

I wish Daddy the best of luck with a new site and his new adventure. When you do something new, it is often very stressful and a hell of a lot of work. Good luck to him and Deej in making the site a success.

Oz

[Guest BostonGuy]

Nicely said and also just plain nice.. proving, once again, what a high-class guy you are.

BG

[BigK]

RIP

[Guest newatthis]

I, too, appreciate the tone of your comments. Classy!