AuctionCities (formerly Bidway and Bidbay) has been down since January,
and at the beginning of April, promises from ownership to get it back
online were appearing.

April 8th was the first promised date. Around that time, the site appeared
to be moved to a new server, because errors started showing via Cold
Fusion, PHP, and MySQL due to the different versions of the software on
the servers.

Then a pop-up box began appearing promising that April 15th would
be the day that the site would be back online. At this point, the main
home page would display, but no links worked. Some pages even showed the
native Cold Fusion coded pages, including interesting tidbits like IP
numbers to ban from browsing AuctionCities, George Tannous' home IP for
instance, and userid's that were designated as "Administrators"

As of this writing (April 16th), the dreaded "Server Cannot Be Found"
error has been appearing when the site is accessed. Does this mean they
gave up trying to relaunch the site, are they moving servers again?

UPDATE: A new pop up message warns users that the site will now be up on April 22nd, but the chat rooms are available for anybody wanting to chat.

I don't know how those auctions are going to work that have been running since the site went down in January.

HEre are the IP's that are blocked from getting to Auction Cities, these are probably carried over from BidBay, BidWay, or something... Why would George Tannous' IP be blocked, and then reinstated? What was Auctiongallery? Who was Mystx65, and was KillBidBay a website or userid?

<CFSET blocked_ip[1] = "64.36.103.2"><!--- Auctiongallery --->
<CFSET blocked_ip[2] = "202.156.2.243"><!--- Mystx65 --->
<CFSET blocked_ip[3] = "202.156.2.138"><!--- Mystx651 --->
<CFSET blocked_ip[4] = "4.47.183.3"><!--- KillBidBay --->
<!---<CFSET blocked_ip[1] = "4.33.194.85"> -- George Home --->