Hacker Read

ectopod | karma 1587 | avg karma 3.09 · 2021-06-02 16:36:21+00:00

They changed it.

Natfan | karma 381 | avg karma 2.91 · 2021-06-02 16:51:17+00:00

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

reply

ectopod | karma 1587 | avg karma 3.09 · 2021-06-02 12:15:00

According to DNS expertsexchange.com was registered in 2005. However, it definitely existed earlier:

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.

reply

plorkyeran | karma 7764 | avg karma 3.79 · 2021-06-02 16:54:39+00:00

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.exper...

jnosCo | karma 178 | avg karma 6.36 · 2021-06-02 17:28:01+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20000302050619/http://www.expert...