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For the first couple months I couldn’t shake this feeling I was looking at a shady site. Then one day it dawned on me I had been subconsciously reading “expert

• amackera 5y ago
  I mean, the domain is experts-exchange.com. There's a dash there to prevent this mistake from happening.
  • ectopod 5y ago
    They changed it.
    • Natfan 5y ago
      I can assure you that they have not. The landing page for expertsexchange.com just says "Coming soon.", and if you view it with redirects turned on, you're sent to a page offering to sell it, owned by Venture.com. # curl expertsexchange.com <html><head><title>expertsexchange.com</title></head><body><h1>expertsexchange.com</h1><p>Coming soon.</p></body></html> # dig +short expertsexchange.com | head -3 | paste -sd, 96.126.123.244,45.79.19.196,45.33.2.79 # dig +short experts-exchange.com | head -3 | paste -sd, 104.22.5.165,104.22.4.165,172.67.36.241 # whois experts-exchange.com | grep Registrar Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com # whois expertsexchange.com | grep Registrar Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.uniregistrar.com Oh and apparently, if you don't have adblock then you get a whole bunch of ads[0] that I'm presuming are based on this particular crawler's browsing habits? [0]: https://archive.ph/bJKtW https://archive.ph/bJKtW
      • ectopod 5y ago
        According to DNS expertsexchange.com was registered in 2005. However, it definitely existed earlier: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429180417/http://www.expertsexchange.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990429180417/http://www.expert... Edited to add: so the domain lapsed and then was reregistered later. If you click on any of the links in that archived page they are redirections to experts-exchange.com.
    • plorkyeran 5y ago
      The domain was experts-exchange.com from the very beginning. Archive.org even has the 1997 version of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/19970421013342/https://www.experts-exchange.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19970421013342/https://www.exper...
      • jnosCo 5y ago
        https://web.archive.org/web/20000302050619/http://www.expertsexchange.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000302050619/http://www.expert...
• wayoutthere 5y ago
  I always had the same issue with Microsoft Exchange which was frequently abbreviated as MS Exchange, which translates to msexchange if you want to use it in DNS. Anyway after years of dealing with that I went ahead and got the sex change and everything is good now. ;)
• mitchdoogle 5y ago
  This comment reminds me of those kids in middle school who would tell you to write, "pen 15" on a piece of paper and then laugh like crazy when you did because it resembles the word "penis".
  • CRConrad 5y ago
    "Type 58008 into your calculator. Now turn it upside down!"