Saturday, December 31, 2005

Suck.com Domain Parking Hell. Scarlett $4m Deal


scarlett $4m ad deal
Originally uploaded by benbarren.
Forgive me Father, park me not in domain hell : Anything but waiting for some 6 figure buyout by some scraping clickfraudish really simply sucking stealer. Suck.com was snark when it was smart, and monologues by Anuff and Steadman that you wondered how the hell they punched out the words and found the obtuse hyperlinks. Not to mention they were using pseudonyms - the opposite of todays always on RSS vanity watchlists. From Waxy.org : "The strangest part is that the domain continues to belong to Lycos, with Hotwired acting as the nameservers. If you query ns1.hotwired.com for the suck.com domain, it returns 198.65.105.202, an IP address of a Verio server currently hosting over 36,000 domains. The server is owned by a company called ParkingDNS.net, which seems to be hosting nothing but Parkingdots.com affiliate search portals. It also appears that there's no complete archive of Suck.com remaining anywhere online. Because the new owners have blocked web crawlers, Archive.org has purged the entire domain from its historical archive. (Last year, Suckarchives.com expired and was snatched up by a squatter.)"

Suck.com now greets you with :

THIS SITE CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL

WARNING: ADULTS ONLY - SEXUAL CONTENT

The following web pages, associated links, and other material contain nudity and depictions of a sexual nature. All materials beyond this page at this site and linked locations are intended and authorized for access by consenting adults only. No minors are authorized, allowed, or permitted to enter beyond this point. Minors are persons under the age of 18 or 21 years in places in which 18 years is not the legal age of majority.