Performancing.com - RIP?

A few weeks back I wrote about a series of blog posts by Performancing.com's leaders that aired the company's dirty laundry and revealed the turmoil following their failed acquisition. Today, Shoemoney pointed out that Performancing.com seemed to have gone offline.

With no indication of what's happened, and several comments from Shoemoney readers indicating the site was still available in some parts of the world, I did a bit more digging, and it appears that this is indeed more than a temporary glitch.

According to historical domain information, the Performancing.com domain was transferred on February 9 from Nick Wilson at Communicontent ApS to Mark Saunders at SplashPress Media.  SplashPress Media lists a fairly large portfolio of blogs and other sites on their web site, but there's no mention of Performancing yet.

No word on whether Performancing has been acquired by SplashPress, or if it's just the domain name.  Performancing recently made efforts to rebrand their best known product, Performancing for Firefox, as ScribeFire.  The ScribeFire web site remains online (though under construction) and is still registered to Nick Wilson, so  there's still room for hope that development  on the popular FireFox plugin may continue.

UPDATE - I just read via Problogger that Performancing has indeed been sold to SplashPress Media, and they've brought the site back online. The ScribeFire plugin was not a part of the sale, and will apparently continue on it's own.