Are ita's credit cards still valid? If not (which I suspect is likely) then perhaps if she had set up automatic monthly payments for hosting the site was suspended for non-payment. I'm guessing it's probably something like that.
Looking at the whois info, all the mailing addresses are listed as Southfield MI. Is that where ita lived when she was in MI?
Good question, no idea. But Burrell did say it might be on the same account as provocateuse, which they do have the info for. I think.
I believe she did. I think velvetedge.com was down as of 1/23, when we tried to access that email account.
Sigh. Little bits, blinking out.
Was it dreamhost all her hosting was through? Did she use that for domain registration as well?
Both thevelvetedge.com and provocateuse.com (which is still up) are registered with domaindiscover, which is now tierranet, apparently. The thevelvetedge registration will expire on May 6th, 2015, while provocateuse won't until October 27, 2018. So the domains are fine, for the time being. But the hosting accounts will run out sooner.
I downloaded one page (entities.htm) from the velvet edge that I use a lot, so I will post that up to my server in case anyone else needs it (just as soon as I remember how to do ftp). Unfortunately, that's all I've got.
Okay, one tiny little bit blinking back on...
ita's HTML entities page
Thanks, DX. That's not even something I'd ever have occasion to use, but it's hers and it's good just to know you've rescued it.
I failed in my goal to get all of ita's stuff in the mail by yesterday (work has been kicking my behind this week), so please don't worry if you haven't gotten things yet even though other people have.
For those of you who want to send me postage (and honestly, I am not sure the mail room is charging me for everything, so no worries if not), my profile address is also my paypal address.