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:

  1. Anonymous8:55 PM

    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

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  2. Anonymous11:06 PM

    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.

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  3. 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

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  4. Anonymous1:55 PM

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

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  5. 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

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  6. Anonymous2:58 PM

    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

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  7. Anonymous3:50 PM

    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]

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  8. 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?

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