Thursday, January 06, 2005

A mystery

My main reaction to the challenge to the electors is below. The issue of vote fraud is not dead -- for one thing, there's still the lawsuit.

In the meantime, I just discovered something odd, thanks to Google. If you go to your browser's URL field and type in www.conspiracy.com, you will be redirected back here -- to Cannonfire. At least, such was the case for a short while today. But why? Has this been going on for a while? Do the people who run www.conspiracy.com redirect readers to a new site each day? I certainly had nothing to do with this!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

WHOIS information for conspiracy.com:

[whois.enom.com]

Registration Service Provided By: Identity Consultancy
Contact: support@identityconsultancy.com
Visit:

Domain name: conspiracy.com

Administrative Contact:
Identity Consultancy
Domain Admin (support@identityconsultancy.com)
+358.414733428
Fax:
Uudenmaankatu 31 L 15
Helsinki, 00120
FI

Anonymous said...

Hi Joseph

The IP that is attached to www.conspiracy.com is owned by a company Washington State called Internap

nslookup www.conspiracy.com

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.conspiracy.com
Address: 64.74.96.244

Here is more info from arin.net:

CustName: eNom
Address: 16771 NE 80th Street
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
RegDate: 2003-04-23
Updated: 2003-04-23

NetRange: 64.74.96.224 - 64.74.96.255
CIDR: 64.74.96.224/27
NetName: PNAP-CHG-ENOM-RM-01
NetHandle: NET-64-74-96-224-1
Parent: NET-64-74-0-0-1
NetType: Reassigned
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-04-23
Updated: 2003-04-23

TechHandle: INO3-ARIN
TechName: InterNap Network Operations Center
TechPhone: +1-877-843-4662
TechEmail: noc@internap.com

OrgAbuseHandle: IAC3-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Internap Abuse Contact
OrgAbusePhone: +1-206-256-9500
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@internap.com

OrgTechHandle: INO3-ARIN
OrgTechName: InterNap Network Operations Center
OrgTechPhone: +1-877-843-4662
OrgTechEmail: noc@internap.com

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-01-06 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

Ron Brynaert said...

Wow. Scary.

I'm afraid that if I type www.guantanamobay.com into my browser that I'll end up at my blog. And there wouldn't be any need to check the source for that I.P.

Peace

Anonymous said...

keep in mind that internap is an ISP so it that ip space could really belong to anybody.

weezil said...

Joe, your browser must be set up to feed unrecognised URLs to Google.

Yes, you've been Googlebombed such that a lookup on Google for "www.conspiracy.com" yields a link to your blog.

No, www.conspiracy.com is not redirected to your blog.

-weez

Anonymous said...

The google bomb is there, but also right now, anyway, if you do a "curl www.conspiracy.com" or the like, it's just a redirect to google news.

It's just a domain name without a site.

Someone who "owned" a whole bunch of these kinds of non-sites could do a google bomb all by himself.

-- chemoelectric.org

Anonymous said...

conspiracy.com indeed was redirecting, though they changed it to now redirect to news.google.com. Note the "Location: " header they send (I changed the angle brackets to square to avoid problems with embedded htmlin a comment):

curl -si http://www.conspiracy.com | less

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:43:52 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
HTTP_REFERER: www.conspiracy.com
Location: http://news.google.com/
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 140

[html] [head] [title] Object moved[/title][/head][body]
[h2]Object moved to [a href='http://news.google.com/']here[/a].[/h2]
[/body][/html]

Joseph Cannon said...

Heh heh...so, today, if you type in www.conspiracy.com, you get...the news.

Damn fitting!

Thanks much all, for your comments and help. Right now, my first suspicion is that someone put in a "redirect order" (not sure what the technical name actually is) to my page as a sort of joke, or perhaps as a tip of the hat.

The odd thing is...no-one seems to have done anything with that site for the past eight years. A URL like that might have fetched a decent price during the go-go years of the net boom.

A friend of mine was willing to make an offer for www.conspiracy.com. He's willing to go up to a cool $300 bucks. He thinks he can make some money with that name. So if the owners are reading this...howzabouts?