Goon Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Sioux Illustrated Looks like a someone hack the Sioux Illustrated web page. It looks like it is in German. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwing77 Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Sioux Illustrated Looks like a someone hack the Sioux Illustrated web page. It looks like it is in German. It's not a very interesting site, German or otherwise. By the way, I think it is kindof humorous that the error messages are in english Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimdahl Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Not hacked, just bought. UND apparently just didn't renew the domain name when they quit putting it online and someone else bought the name. http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=...illustrated.com It's reasonably common to buy expiring domain names and fill them with ads, on the theory that they'll still be getting some traffic and may have resale value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted October 30, 2006 Author Share Posted October 30, 2006 Not hacked, just bought. UND apparently just didn't renew the domain name when they quit putting it online and someone else bought the name. http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=...illustrated.com It's reasonably common to buy expiring domain names and fill them with ads, on the theory that they'll still be getting some traffic and may have resale value. Jim would this be considered a spoof? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimdahl Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Jim would this be considered a spoof?Nah, they're not pretending to be siouxillustrated.com; siouxillustrated.com abandoned the URL so someone else bought it and is delivering different content to anyone who still has that URL bookmarked, memorized, or linked. The original site no longer exists (though Sioux Illustrated will reappear online with the new fightingsioux.com website), so these people are directing ads at people who are still trying to visit the defunct site. As cheap as domain names are these days (I think <$10/year), it's a fairly common business tactic to snatch up expiring domains on the assumption that expiring names are names that someone else previously deemed to have value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon Posted October 30, 2006 Author Share Posted October 30, 2006 Nah, they're not pretending to be siouxillustrated.com; siouxillustrated.com abandoned the URL so someone else bought it and is delivering different content to anyone who still has that URL bookmarked, memorized, or linked. The original site no longer exists (though Sioux Illustrated will reappear online with the new fightingsioux.com website), so these people are directing ads at people who are still trying to visit the defunct site. As cheap as domain names are these days (I think <$10/year), it's a fairly common business tactic to snatch up expiring domains on the assumption that expiring names are names that someone else previously deemed to have value. Thanks that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxMeNow Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 I KNOW NOOOTHHING!!! (and the last I heard Scott SCHULTZ was in the CFL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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