Because QIP is similar to RIP

 
After reading the two sentences from the title, some of the guests of the Hub will experience a version of the " Mandela effect " After all, according to popular opinion, the QIP project has long been dead. And here not! He quite existed and even worked more or less, until recently
 
 
Once popular, but now lost the former glory portal QIP.ru, which at a certain stage included news aggregator, forums, mail, messenger, photo hosting and other services, finally came to a complete decline. Approximately since August 2? 201? there have been permanent interruptions with authorization in services, access to mailboxes and delivery of letters. As of September 2? 2018 QIP.ru periodically goes into total inaccessibility up to several days.
 
 

 
 
At one of the moments of "enlightenment", when the site again earned, current owners posted an announcement about the sale of domains that form the mail portal portal. The announcement lasted a couple of days between several downtimes, and then disappeared.
 
 
Technical support is not available to users. Section technical support not available. No warnings about EOL ( ? End of Life [/i] -completion of maintenance) or long technical work were not sent out. This is such an inglorious end. the Wikipedia data , the project began work on September ? 199? when the registration of 20 MB mailboxes in the domains pisem.net and mailru.com was opened. At the moment (early 2018), it provided email addresses in more than 22 domains.
 
 
On 1 July 200? the project was acquired by a group of RBC companies.
 
 
The project was named Mail.ru in 2004. Project nm.ru and Postal.ru occurred on February 2? 2009. Combining the project QIP.ru and Pocht.ru occurred on December ? 2009. The main domain of the project since 2009 is qip.ru.
 
 
In 201? has ceased update the official portal community in the VC.
 
 
In March 201? the company RBC sold a number of services to private investors. The list of sold products includes portal QIP.ru, News.qip.ru, educational database 5ballov.qip.ru, service of a selection of tests Aeterna.qip.ru, astrological service Horo.qip.ru, service of cards Kards.qip.ru, Radio .qip.ru, photo bank Photo.qip.ru, service for creating screenshots Shot.qip.ru, forums Borda.ru and Forum24.ru, service for storage and data exchange Files.qip.ru and mail qip.ru.
 
 
In June 2015 the domain pochta.ru was sold RBC "Post of Russia" through the intermediary company . But QIP.ru users kept access to mail accounts as a result of tripartite agreement . Since September 201? the postal service of the domain pochta.ru stopped working with new letters (new letters arrived until November 2017), access to mail accounts was saved on the site www.qip.ru
 
 
At the end of August 201? with the portal QIP.ru and its services, a continuous series of serious problems began, which it is now difficult to call "temporary difficulties". The term "epic failure" is most appropriate. In pauses between complete inaccessibility, the main site showed notifications of "technical work" and "moving to another data center".
 
 
According to " New News " As of August 201? the owner of the well-known Qip instant messenger is Media Mir, which also owns the e-mail mail.qip.ru and the service for creating and using the borda.ru forums.
 
 

What is dangerous?

 
The situation is changing rapidly from bad to worse. If the announcement of the sale of domains is not a rally, then instead of denial of service and the likely loss of data stored on the project servers, users may face much more serious consequences. There are no guarantees that the new domain owners will turn out to be honest and decent. What prevents them from raising the mail servers on the domains received at their disposal, and begin to receive someone else's mail? For sure there will be people who have valuable accounts attached to the mailboxes from the QIP.ru domain pool. Or, such a mailbox is specified as a backup mailbox in another email service, and you can restore the password to it.
 
 
By the way, the qip.ru portal is the operator of personal data and its actions potentially block the data. It is interesting, when the plot is interested in RosKomNadzor or other controlling body?
 
 

Abandoned users

 
 
In the official community portal QIP in the social network in Vkontakte last post is dated April 1? 2013. And in the comments to the old topics, thousands of fresh complaints from users who have become hostages to the service remain unanswered.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Only registered users can participate in the survey. Enter , you are welcome.
Did you use the QIP messenger at the time of August 2018?
QIP 2005 (ICQ only)
QIP 2012 (formerly "QIP 2010" and "QIP Infium") without accounting for QIP.ru
QIP 2012 (formerly "QIP 2010" and "QIP Infium") with reference to QIP.ru
used to use QIP 2005
previously used QIP 201? QIP 2010 or QIP Infium
QIP PDA Symbian
never used
Voted out 667 users. Abstained 46 users.
What QIP.ru services did you use most often at the time of August 2018?
by any
mailbox in one of the domain zones
account of the instant messenger QIP
Photo hosting
file sharing
an exchange of screenshots
forums
abstracts
postcards
               
other service
591 users have voted. Abstained 56 users.