Firefly Mobile is a mobile phone company that is focused at kids in the age of 5-12 years old and provides a real mobile phone with simple functions and according to CrunchBase has about $43 million in funding.
Well, one thing that has vanished, is its website. I had noticed a DNS change from DYN.com managed DNS to a generic DNS at GoDaddy. This could have been done simply by mistake but it’s not easy to accidentally just change DNS. This can happen if the domain expires for an example, but that is not the case because the domain doesn’t expire for a long time!
So, the DNS change was likely done by somebody. Why is the question!
I tried several different searches related to Firefly Mobile with little news of anything happening, but that is not all that common when I’m doing my digging, as I often discover stuff before it’s reported by anybody else.
To note, a DNS change and small error can take a website down by accident, but I also noticed that the Firefly Mobile phone is currently unavailable on Amazon as well:
So is this a sign of something as well? I was able to find a couple Firefly phones available on Amazon, but nothing directly from Firefly Mobile itself.
Again, I want to express that this simply could be a hosting change, and something went wrong, as that does happen! The site is currently at time of this article, not live and simply displays a white page. It was functioning the other day, but I didn’t see any messages about the site/service being sold to another company etc.
The one fact that I do have, the main website used by Firefly Mobile (FireflyMobile.com) is currently not resolving due to a DNS change. Is something up with the company, is hard to say at this point.
I found this really weird aswell… did a WhoIS Search and found the following:
Domain Name: FIREFLYMOBILE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 89116121_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Update Date: 2014-06-20 22:16:21
Creation Date: 2002-08-07 03:51:40
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-08-07 03:51:40
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.480-624-2505
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Lisa Normand
Registrant Organization: Topher, LLC
Registrant Street: 2711 Centerville Road
Registrant Street: Suite 400
Registrant City: Wilmington
Registrant State/Province: Delaware
Registrant Postal Code: 19808
Registrant Country: United States
Registrant Phone: +1.2146515000
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Lisa Normand
Admin Organization: Haynes and Boone, LLP
Admin Street: 2323 Victory Ave.
Admin Street: Suite 700
Admin City: Dallas
Admin State/Province: Texas
Admin Postal Code: 75219
Admin Country: United States
Admin Phone: +1.2146515000
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Lisa Normand
Tech Organization: Haynes and Boone, LLP
Tech Street: 2323 Victory Ave.
Tech Street: Suite 700
Tech City: Dallas
Tech State/Province: Texas
Tech Postal Code: 75219
Tech Country: United States
Tech Phone: +1.2146515000
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: [email protected]
Name Server: NS69.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS70.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
Last update of WHOIS database: 2014-9-7T1:00:00Z
Everything was recently updated, however why is all tech and registrant information set up to a haynesboone a law firm??? Did firefly go under? a bit bummed since all i was looking for was for a cell for my kid…
oh well
I had called the phone number provided by a website from bloomburg and Forbes and when I called it, it was disconnected