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An interesting one. Before I went (unexpectedly) to jail, I ran a successful mortgage web site. While I was in jail the domain lapsed. I browsed to the domain
by kingcharles 5y ago
An interesting one. Before I went (unexpectedly) to jail, I ran a successful mortgage web site.
While I was in jail the domain lapsed. I browsed to the domain the other day to see who bought it (I'd been offered $80K for it just before I got locked up) and was shocked to find the site exactly as I'd left it.
Whoever bought the domain also fished the whole site out of archive.org and carefully reconstructed it, leaving only one small error in the HTML.
- echelon 5y agoThat's a really interesting story. Can you elaborate more? Have you tried to reach out to the owner?
- kingcharles 5y agoI haven't been able to trace them so far. Emails to the domain go unanswered and the WHOIS is obfuscated. It's not even clear what their plan is with the domain, other than to hold the existing PageRank since they didn't monetize it and left all my contact info on it. They didn't even install their own outbound links to try to divert some of the PageRank away.