Collectobil- has it gone?

[PlayMoto]

okay i'm just reading it all now.
I'm pretty ex[erienced with hosting and have a good hosting company, which hosts all my sites.

I am willing to continue the collectobil website, if someone can get me into contact with the previous owners.
IF all the data is still there, i will gladly transfer it all and get it up and running again.

I will pay for the hosting and the domainname, and will put a sponsorship button on the site for donations 
As i am free for the next couple of days, this could be a fast and easy fix, if the contents are still there and the previous owner is willing to work with me?
I would gladly get it back upto date aswell, such a  usefull site!

[playmofire]

I got this:


Collectobil.com Whois Information

Date Registered    December 13, 2000
Owner Name    Watzinger, Walter
Owner Location    Houston, TX, US

This information comes from the domain registration and shows date registered, owner name and location. Some domain registrations are private and protected from the public.

Collectobil.com Hosting Information

IP Address    216.157.34.96 (United States)
Server Platform    Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)

from here:

http://www.trafficestimate.com/collectobil.com

I don't know whether that helps?

And then there's this:

Domain Name: COLLECTOBIL.COM
Registry Domain ID: 48071507_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
Updated Date: 2017-03-05T14:47:10Z
Creation Date: 2000-12-13T23:08:35Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Registrar IANA ID: 2
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Silvano, Richard
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 235 W 18TH ST
Registrant City: HOUSTON
Registrant State/Province: TX
Registrant Postal Code: 77008-4005
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.7136238780
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +1.7136234569
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: cmi-lmi@att.net
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Silvano, Richard
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: 235 W 18TH ST
Admin City: HOUSTON
Admin State/Province: TX
Admin Postal Code: 77008-4005
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.7136238780
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +1.7136234569
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: cmi-lmi@att.net
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Silvano, Richard
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: 235 W 18TH ST
Tech City: HOUSTON
Tech State/Province: TX
Tech Postal Code: 77008-4005
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.7136238780
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +1.7136234569
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: cmi-lmi@att.net
Name Server: NS1.CAREERMANAGEMENT.COM
Name Server: NS2.CAREERMANAGEMENT.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-08-16T07:59:09Z <<<


For more information on Whois status codes, please visit
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/epp-status-codes-2014-06-16-en.

here:

http://website.informer.com/collectobil.com#stats

[Salamander]

Woot! Some of the info is still there using the wayback machine! I don't think the full size pictures are available, but it's better than nothing if the whole site is actually gone?

Here's a link to a catalogue page:  example

Go here, click on any of the blue circles on dates to get taken to a stored version.  (Though really, you can navigate just using that previous link. That one is the last saved version, from July 2017, but you can look at other years using the calendar.)

[Macruran]

He's in Houston, maybe he's a little underwater at the moment.

[playmofire]

Searching is a bit slow, but the pictures seem t be there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170613180512/http://www.collectobil.com/catalogue/catalogue.html

Maybe if some of us agreed an allocation of saving the images or pages, then we could recreate the site elsewhere.  I've started on Fire and Rescue.

[GrahamB]

As I understand it, Collectobil is still owned by Bart deSmet, but I have no contact details for him.

[playmofire]

Unfortunately, Bart deSmet is a very common name and although a search on Bart deSmet and Playmobil bring up a lot of results around Playmobil animated trailers, I can find nothing on these results referring to him.

Is he still working for Playmobil?  If he is, maybe he could be contacted there?  Would one of the PCC administrators contact him for us?

[GrahamB]

I believe he is still working for Playmobil, certainly worth a try contacting him through the PCC!

[playmofire]

Smet is apparently the Dutch equivalent of Smith, hence the large number of them.

[Hadoque]

Smet is apparently the Dutch equivalent of Smith, hence the large number of them.

And his firstname "Bart" is also very common in Belgium (Flanders) and The Netherlands...