The Voynich Ninja

It seems as if You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , maintained by Rich Santacoloma, including its forum, has disappeared from the net.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

(08-05-2025, 09:50 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems as if You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , maintained by Rich Santacoloma, including its forum, has disappeared from the net.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

Doing an ICANN lookup on the voynich.net domain name, it expired back on Mar. 20th. Only 2 Wayback Machine captures for 2025, both in April, both of which show the server returning no such page. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is still up, with his last post being from August last year. Even if Rich was stepping back from matters Voynich related it seems odd he wouldn't post anything about shutting down the voynich.net forums. Hopefully he's not dealing with a serious health or other personal issue.

(08-05-2025, 04:35 PM)kckluge Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

(08-05-2025, 09:50 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems as if You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , maintained by Rich Santacoloma, including its forum, has disappeared from the net.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

Doing an ICANN lookup on the voynich.net domain name, it expired back on Mar. 20th. Only 2 Wayback Machine captures for 2025, both in April, both of which show the server returning no such page. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is still up, with his last post being from August last year. Even if Rich was stepping back from matters Voynich related it seems odd he wouldn't post anything about shutting down the voynich.net forums. Hopefully he's not dealing with a serious health or other personal issue.

Quote:I still don't understand how you get to "Bird=substitution" though. Nor where you get "sub" or "sub." from, either. How and why do you equate the word "bird" with the word, or concept, of "substitution"? Where do you read "sub"?

Thanks, Rich.

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(08-05-2025, 04:35 PM)kckluge Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hopefully he's not dealing with a serious health or other personal issue.

As an excellent example of synchronicity, I was just copied on an E-mail exchange between Rich and some other people, so that should not be the case.

Hi Everyone: Thanks for the concern, but all is fine. Well I was late on a payment to the my domain server! The host had changed names (OLM was purchased by some entity called "entirelydigital") and the emails keep going into my junk folder. It was a case of "out of sight, out of mind". I need lots of reminders, and also, I admit, I had not been checking the voynich.net domain the last couple of months. 

Anyway, it should be back up within a day or so. OLM you could just call for tech support, while entirelydigital really grinds its gears. You can't talk to anyone, you can only "open a ticket". I mean, its paid up, but now I need to shake their tails.

I also have had, and have, several hosts for various purposes... and they have changed hands, too, as I said... or close down, and I have to move them. I need to put everything, all domains, all websites, emails... in one place. It gets so damned complicated scattered like this.

On the Voynich Manuscript front, I found myself mired in a steep learning curve of research because of a question I was asking myself. The answer to that question ballooned beyond what I expected, so I've needed to sort of "chip away" at the problem when I find the time to immerse myself into it. Hopefully that post will be done and published in the next few weeks.

Thanks again,

Rich.

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(09-05-2025, 07:34 PM)proto57 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well I was late on a payment to the my domain server! The host had changed names (OLM was purchased by some entity called "entirelydigital") and the emails keep going into my junk folder. It was a case of "out of sight, out of mind". I need lots of reminders, and also, I admit, I had not been checking the voynich.net domain the last couple of months.

Anyway, it should be back up within a day or so. OLM you could just call for tech support, while entirelydigital really grinds its gears. You can't talk to anyone, you can only "open a ticket". I mean, its paid up, but now I need to shake their tails.

Crazy, but it turns out that I took on too much blame for this. This Foobar was a joint effort. Here was a surprise response from EntirelyDigital this morning:

Quote: Thanks for the reply, and my apologies for the inconvenience. It seems that the domain was not properly transferred in our systems when OLM was integrated with EntirelyDigital.

I have now completed the steps to bring your voynich.net into the list of your services / domain name, and have proactively initiated the domain renewal. We would ask that you pay the related invoice at your earliest convenience.

So what happened was I did pay the bill on time, the pertinent bill (domain registration, it was a later bill that was a bit late), but my fault was not checking the actual account at EntirelyDigital... which had on it two of my existing domain names, but NOT voynich.net. As they say, it didn't get "transferred" over to my new account with them (!!!!).

So it is true I am somewhat bad at keeping up with all my accounts, domains, websites. But in this case, I should have checked that the transfer went properly after they bought OLM. But as it turns out, this screwup originated with EntirelyDigital, and was missed by me.

That being said, and too their credit, it seems they rushed through the reinstatement of the domain to my account, and got things up and running pretty quickly, once they realized their error. And they did it even before receiving my payment for the additional amount for the missing domain. It's all online again: Mailing list, forum, homepage.

Rich
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