8:44 AM, Sep 22, 2004
What the?
I'm sure you are familiar with websites that name themselves, based on popular misspellings of the names of major websites. I have seen
Ebya,
Googl,
Microsot, and my favorite:
Yagoo!. These pages, in case you don't want to load them up and enjoy popups and worthless ads, squat on these erroneously typed domains, hoping to generate hits through people's clumsy fingers.
I was informed yesterday of a website that has just recently come into being. Yes, unless some other meaning can be discovered of the word, bahua dot com has an evil shadow. Renae pointed out to me that if you take your browser to
bahau.com(
don't click if you don't want to be offended, or fired, if you're at work), you will be whisked away to one of those anonymous-looking porn index sites with which the information superhighway seems to be paved.
I did a bit of research(ie: I ran a
whois command), and found the following information on this site:
Registrant:
e:bOOm, S.A.
Apartado 6092
Lisboa, Lisboa 1601-901
Lisboa
PT
Created on: 28-JUL-04
Technical Contact:
Morales, Vilma administration@eboomsa.com
So they're Portuguese! I think it's entirely possible that Mister or Miss Morales registered this site by sheer coincidence, but I like to think that someone in faraway Portugal is trying to feed off the "popularity" of bahua dot com. One thing that I hope this teaches you, dear reader, is to use a bookmark for this page.
bahua interrupted with:
My linux machine is dead at the moment. I'm expecting a new mobo in the mail sometime soon. I would have come back to the channel sooner if it hadn't been for my linux machine making pac-man noises. Sorry about that. I'll stop in, temporary-like, tonight.
8:04 PM, Sep 28, 2004