GRE site no longer exiists

[puzzleriddle]

http://www.greamerica.com/

 

[Voyager]

Looks like someone in Australia picked it up.

 

[k1agh]

Company doesnt exist right?

 

[Voyager]

GRE America? Nope. I bet some Australian company bought it counting on GRE America paying them big bucks to get the domain back. Boy are they in for a surprise.

 

[Citywide173]

Once Whistler bought the rights to the radios, it was pretty much a matter of time. GRE America tried to do the right thing and support the products when GRE just up and abandoned them, but with Whistler in the picture, the need disappeared.

Nobody has picked it up. It expired yesterday and there is a grace period. The Austrailian company referenced is the registrar that was used by GRE America. It is common practice to ransom an expired domain for late renewal fees or to offer it for sale. It should be released back to the available list within a few months to a few years depending on how certain they are they can make money off of it.

 

[k1agh]

I thought I read somewhere that gre closed down american ops in september 2014.

 

[Voyager]

Nobody has picked it up. It expired yesterday and there is a grace period.

Current expiration date is December 26, 2015.
Latest update was earlier today.

 

[Citywide173]

Public Domain Registry was their registrar. If you read the top of the GRE America placeholder page, it says it expired at 0500 on 12/26/2014. It is currently in the grace period phase, whether or not they are going to hold on to it for a year is anybody's guess.

Restoring a Deleted Domain Name from the Redemption Grace Period

EDIT: a better FAQ page for this particular page

http://manage.publicdomainregistry.com/kb/servlet/KBServlet/faq601.html They auto renew it for a year and lock it, but will only hold it exclusively for the current owner for 36 days

 

[KB7MIB]

I guess I should have updated the firmware, etc on my '500 sooner...

John
Peoria

 

[tumegpc]

So how do we get the latest firmware and database update ? DonS ?

 

[ScannerSK]

I have copies of all the PSR-500/600 CPU/DSP updates and I believe all of the PSR-800 updates officially released on the GRE website for download if anyone should require them.

I started a Yahoo Group some time ago to host some of these files for those that require them until a more permanent solution is available. Currently, only the last official updates for the PSR-500/600 (non-Canadian and Canadian) are on this group.

Yahoo Group for PSR-500/600/800 Updates

EZScanDGInstall_v1.08, (40 Mb in size) for the PSR-800 I believe is still being hosted by another member at the following link: http://www.lifenliberty.com/GRECOM.zip.

Shawn

 

[RDGDigital]

So how do we get the latest firmware and database update ? DonS ?

http://forums.radioreference.com/gre-scanners/294726-ez-scan-update.html#post2220059

In the above link DonS says...

"The server that supplies the updates is being transitioned from the old GRE America hosting to Whistler."​

That was posted back in July and so long as DonS still has the contract to provide those updates, they will still be provided but by whistler instead of GRE.

 

[Voyager]

I started a Yahoo Group some time ago to host some of these files for those that require them until a more permanent solution is available. Currently, only the last official updates for the PSR-500/600 (non-Canadian and Canadian) are on this group.
Yahoo Group for PSR-500/600/800 Updates

Why not just put them in the FILES section of the regular scanner groups?

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PSR-500/info
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PSR-600/info
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PSR-800/info

On second thought, they are likely already there.

 

[puzzleriddle]

update.. looks like butel software has the site now ....GRE GRECOM RadioShack PRO-106 PRO106 PRO-197 PRO197 PSR-500 PSR-600 PRO-106 PRO106 PRO-197 PRO197 PSR500 PSR600 Software click the original and it will redirect you

 

[Voyager]

I'm not seeing that here, but maybe it simply has not propagated through the DNS servers yet.

 

[Citywide173]

Not seeing it here either. The whois still shows the registrar with DNS pointing to the parked pages.

 

[Ronaldski]

So how do we get the latest firmware and database update ? DonS ?

I sent the files I had for firmware cpu 2.1 and dsp 1.4 to my dropbox, then I put links to that in the wiki's for the psr 500 and psr 600.

500 PSR-500 - The RadioReference Wiki

600 PSR-600 - The RadioReference Wiki

 

[puzzleriddle]

try empytying your browser cache

 

[Citywide173]

I was on a tablet that had never been to the site before. Just tried it from a third computer, on a third network, with the same results

 

[fxdscon]

I'm getting re-directs to either of these 2 parked pages:

greamerica.com

greamerica.com

From several computers here and at work, but none have gone to Butel.

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