The FTX Future Fund official website
ftxfuturefund.org no longer works, with
all pages giving a nginx 404 not found error. Looking at its Wayback
Machine
snapshots,
the last working snapshot appears to be from December 12,
2022
(about 4 days ago).
The content of the site still seems to be available at
ftx.tghp.co.uk. This is a subdomain of
tghp.co.uk, the website of website design
company The Glasshouse Project. A reasonable inference is that The
Glasshouse Project designed FTX Future Fund’s website and hosted a
copy of it as a subdomain.
This leads me to a bunch of questions:
Who owns the domain registration for ftxfuturefund.org? Are there
efforts by anybody to secure this and make sure the domain
registration does not expire? Running whois ftxfuturefund.org
shows that ownership information is hidden, but does say that the
registration is currently set to expire on 2023-02-23T00:44:17Z.
Where is ftxfuturefund.org currently hosted and is it possible for
whoever is managing the hosting to fix the issue that’s causing the
nginx 404 not found error? Running dig ftxfuturefund.org shows
that the IP address for ftxfuturefund.org points to CloudFlare,
that’s probably not the final host, so the hosting situation is
unclear.
Is the version at ftx.tghp.co.uk the most current version? Or was
it just an initial version of the site that The Glasshouse Project
made for FTX Future Fund before handing it off to the latter? ETA:
per Aleks_K’s
comment,
the answer to this is no; the version at ftx.tghp.co.uk is
outdated.
Does The Glasshouse Project plan to keep its version around for the
long term? Is it worth reaching out to them to encourage them to
keep it around longer? Presumably, FTX Future Fund is no longer a
client of theirs, so they don’t have a strong incentive to keep the
site up, but the marginal cost may be negligible.
Partly depending on the answers to the previous questions, should
the links pointing to ftxfuturefund.org from other places be left
as is, updated to use ftx.tghp.co.uk, or updated to use the most
recent functioning Wayback Machine snapshot? ETA: Given the answer
to 3 above, it seems that using ftx.tghp.co.uk is inadvisable, so
the most likely answer here would be to use a Wayback Machine
snapshot of ftxfuturefund.org, unless ownership of the site can be
transitioned to somebody who can steward it for the long term.
I’d love if somebody with insight on any of these questions could
share it in the comments.
FTX Future Fund’s website is down, ftx.tghp.co.uk still seems to work
The FTX Future Fund official website ftxfuturefund.org no longer works, with all pages giving a nginx 404 not found error. Looking at its Wayback Machine snapshots, the last working snapshot appears to be from December 12, 2022 (about 4 days ago).
The content of the site still seems to be available at ftx.tghp.co.uk. This is a subdomain of tghp.co.uk, the website of website design company The Glasshouse Project. A reasonable inference is that The Glasshouse Project designed FTX Future Fund’s website and hosted a copy of it as a subdomain.
This leads me to a bunch of questions:
Who owns the domain registration for ftxfuturefund.org? Are there efforts by anybody to secure this and make sure the domain registration does not expire? Running
whois ftxfuturefund.orgshows that ownership information is hidden, but does say that the registration is currently set to expire on 2023-02-23T00:44:17Z.Where is ftxfuturefund.org currently hosted and is it possible for whoever is managing the hosting to fix the issue that’s causing the nginx 404 not found error? Running
dig ftxfuturefund.orgshows that the IP address for ftxfuturefund.org points to CloudFlare, that’s probably not the final host, so the hosting situation is unclear.Is the version at ftx.tghp.co.uk the most current version? Or was it just an initial version of the site that The Glasshouse Project made for FTX Future Fund before handing it off to the latter? ETA: per Aleks_K’s comment, the answer to this is no; the version at ftx.tghp.co.uk is outdated.
Does The Glasshouse Project plan to keep its version around for the long term? Is it worth reaching out to them to encourage them to keep it around longer? Presumably, FTX Future Fund is no longer a client of theirs, so they don’t have a strong incentive to keep the site up, but the marginal cost may be negligible.
Partly depending on the answers to the previous questions, should the links pointing to ftxfuturefund.org from other places be left as is, updated to use ftx.tghp.co.uk, or updated to use the most recent functioning Wayback Machine snapshot? ETA: Given the answer to 3 above, it seems that using ftx.tghp.co.uk is inadvisable, so the most likely answer here would be to use a Wayback Machine snapshot of ftxfuturefund.org, unless ownership of the site can be transitioned to somebody who can steward it for the long term.
I’d love if somebody with insight on any of these questions could share it in the comments.