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[larrytt]

After a five-week absence due to travel, I'm back to blogging every Monday. This week I wrote about the upcoming US Table Tennis Hall of Fame Inductions and Banquet in Houston on Oct. 10 (I'll be there) and a number of other TT segments. If anyone has suggestions on future blog topics, let me know! (Note - the blog is totally volunteer. I make no money off of it. I don't even charge for the ads I put up.)

August 26, 2024 | TableTennisCoaching.com

Tips of the Week Since I’ve been out of town and not blogging for the last five weeks you may have missed the Tips of the Week that still went up every Monday. Here they are!

www.tabletenniscoaching.com

-Larry Hodges

 

[d3nium]

Sorry to hijack your thread Larry but I've just finished one of your books 'The Spirit of Pong'

Very enjoyable.

 

[larrytt]

Sorry to hijack your thread Larry but I've just finished one of your books 'The Spirit of Pong'

Very enjoyable.

No problem, and glad you liked the book!
The Spirit of Pong
-Larry Hodges

 

[SrSTT]

Hi Larry, always good to read your stuff, be it in your books or online.
However, for a couple of months(?) your TableTennisCoaching.com website appears to have been hijacked and redirected to a window company. I have seen this referenced on other sites (and i understand not everyone is afflicted) but is there any fix you know of or have you looked into it? I do miss my weekly fix.
fwiw, I am running Windows 10/Firefox/NordVPN. Nord alerts me that the site is not to be trusted. Heres a screenshot of the redirect:

 

[larrytt]

Hi Larry, always good to read your stuff, be it in your books or online.
However, for a couple of months(?) your TableTennisCoaching.com website appears to have been hijacked and redirected to a window company. I have seen this referenced on other sites (and i understand not everyone is afflicted) but is there any fix you know of or have you looked into it? I do miss my weekly fix.
fwiw, I am running Windows 10/Firefox/NordVPN. Nord alerts me that the site is not to be trusted. Heres a screenshot of the redirect:

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Wow - this is the first I've heard of this. When I put the address into my desktop or laptop computers (with Chrome and Edge), it goes to my site. Does anyone else have this problem? Here's the link:
www.tabletenniscoaching.com
-Larry Hodges

 

[SrSTT]

Here's a screengrab of Nord's warning:

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

tabletenniscoaching.com and www.tabletenniscoaching.com are 2 different websites just so you guys all know.

www.tabletenniscoaching.com is correct and working normal
tabletenniscoaching.com is the window company that doesn't have any security certificate (hence the threat protection alert)

 

[d3nium]

tabletenniscoaching.com and www.tabletenniscoaching.com are 2 different websites just so you guys all know.

www.tabletenniscoaching.com is correct and working normal
tabletenniscoaching.com is the window company that doesn't have any security certificate (hence the threat protection alert)

I would advise @larrytt to install a ssl certificate on his website.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I would advise @larrytt to install a ssl certificate on his website.

agree
just noticed now after you mentioned it, there is no ssl certificate

 

[SrSTT]

tabletenniscoaching.com and www.tabletenniscoaching.com are 2 different websites just so you guys all know.

www.tabletenniscoaching.com is correct and working normal
tabletenniscoaching.com is the window company that doesn't have any security certificate (hence the threat protection alert)

I get the same security alert from your link fwiw.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

only a few days ago, i could browse the site normally but i got the same security alert now

(i regularly check for the Tip of the Week)

 

[larrytt]

Just an update - I spent much of the last two days chatting with agents from Godaddy and Register.com about the issue. They told me they fixed the issue yesterday (after 90 minutes of chatting with tech support), but it would need four hours to propagate. It didn't. This morning they said whoever I worked with yesterday had no idea what he was doing. But both sides insisted, at first, that the other side needed to fix it. I finally got into a simultaneous chat with agents from Godaddy and Register, and literally spent 3 hours and 45 minutes this morning with them, with each giving me statements to copy and past to the other. All this just to fix the SSL certificate so https://www.tabletenniscoaching.com would go there, instead of to that window cleaning place. The problem was the domain is hosted at Register.com, but the nameserver is at Godaddy. (All my other domains - many of them - are at Godaddy, but tabletenniscoaching.com uses Drupal, which didn't work at Godaddy so I had to switch to Register when I opened the site 14 years ago.) Anyway, I'm now told it will take 24-48 hours to propagate, and then the problem will be fixed. We'll see. (This is the short version. In reality, I felt like a ping-pong ball as I bounced back and forth between the two, with both sides contradicting the other. At least five times I was told the problem was fixed, and then they'd say, "Oh wait, we also have to do this...")
-Larry Hodges

 

[SrSTT]

Larry, THANK YOU for all the effort in seeing this thru. I look forward to reading your site again!

((its beyond me how any company thinks that hijacking a site and pissing off folks is going to help their business. proof again that this world is full of Stupid people))

 

[larrytt]

Just an update - I spent much of the last two days chatting with agents from Godaddy and Register.com about the issue. They told me they fixed the issue yesterday (after 90 minutes of chatting with tech support), but it would need four hours to propagate. It didn't. This morning they said whoever I worked with yesterday had no idea what he was doing. But both sides insisted, at first, that the other side needed to fix it. I finally got into a simultaneous chat with agents from Godaddy and Register, and literally spent 3 hours and 45 minutes this morning with them, with each giving me statements to copy and past to the other. All this just to fix the SSL certificate so https://www.tabletenniscoaching.com would go there, instead of to that window cleaning place. The problem was the domain is hosted at Register.com, but the nameserver is at Godaddy. (All my other domains - many of them - are at Godaddy, but tabletenniscoaching.com uses Drupal, which didn't work at Godaddy so I had to switch to Register when I opened the site 14 years ago.) Anyway, I'm now told it will take 24-48 hours to propagate, and then the problem will be fixed. We'll see. (This is the short version. In reality, I felt like a ping-pong ball as I bounced back and forth between the two, with both sides contradicting the other. At least five times I was told the problem was fixed, and then they'd say, "Oh wait, we also have to do this...")
-Larry Hodges

The 48 hours above went by, and the issue wasn't fixed. For nearly a week now my full-time job has been "Chatting with Register.com and Godaddy.com." I spent more hours with them this morning - and Godaddy finally figured it out. Apparently, Godaddy hosted my site "on an old operating system,' which caused all the confusion. However, the issue is now...
FIXED!!!
https://www.tabletenniscoaching.com
-Larry Hodges

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

The 48 hours above went by, and the issue wasn't fixed. For nearly a week now my full-time job has been "Chatting with Register.com and Godaddy.com." I spent more hours with them this morning - and Godaddy finally figured it out. Apparently, Godaddy hosted my site "on an old operating system,' which caused all the confusion. However, the issue is now...
FIXED!!!
https://www.tabletenniscoaching.com
-Larry Hodges

all fixed indeed.

from experience
some times tech support isnt really as tech as we think they are.

it is just a routing problem, and I am glad it is routing both links to your website + the SSL certificates are up.
I am surprised they didn't auto renew the certificates, so when it expires again in:

you may need to contact them again to extend it (it should be automated if they are charging you for the service)
now back to writing and table tennis for you

 

[SrSTT]

SUCCESS!!!
Thank again, Larry!
Now, looks like I have some catching up to do....