dynamix.com and sierra.com DNS moved to activision

Hey the authoritative nameservers for the dynamix.com and sierra.com domains
were changed to activision's. Right now activision's servers are not configured
to report any data but this is an interesting move.

That is kinda interesting.

Didn't vivendi (sierras parent company) and activision merge a while back? Perhaps part of the holdup with 1.4 is the fact that while GG has the IP they don't have rights to the "dynamix" name making the master server issue a bit tricky.

Activision Stockholders Approve Combination with Vivendi Games (http://exophase.com/industry/activision-blizzard-merger-approved-by-stockholders-6275.htm)

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jul 08, 2008 — Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that, at a special meeting of stockholders held earlier today, it received the stockholder approval necessary to consummate the company’s agreement with Vivendi, S.A. to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi’s interactive entertainment business, with Activision’s businesses. All of the proposals required to effect the transaction received more than 92 percent of the shares voted. The transaction is expected to close on or around July 9, 2008.

Activision and Vivendi Games will combine their businesses through the merger of a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision with and into Vivendi Games. As a result of the merger, Vivendi Games, the parent company of Blizzard Entertainment and Sierra, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision. Vivendi will receive approximately 295.3 million newly issued shares of Activision common stock. Concurrently with the merger, Vivendi will purchase approximately 62.9 million newly issued shares of Activision common stock at a price of $27.50 per share for a total of approximately $1.7 billion in cash, resulting in a total Vivendi ownership stake in Activision Blizzard of approximately 52% on a fully diluted basis and approximately 54% of shares outstanding. As of the closing of the transaction, Activision will be renamed Activision Blizzard and will continue to operate as a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ATVI.

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a worldwide pure-play online and console game publisher with leading market positions across all categories of the rapidly growing interactive entertainment software industry.

Activision Blizzard maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Romania, Australia, Chile, India, Japan China, the region of Taiwan and South Korea. More information about Activision Blizzard and its products can be found on the company’s website, Activision | Blizzard (http://www.activisionblizzard.co m).

Didn't vivendi (sierras parent company) and activision merge a while back?
Yeah, that's why you can't access the the sierra ftp anymore. really the website has been like that for a while now, that's why the sierra ftp is down.