Friday Funny Bonus – Forget to pay your bill fellas?

Jim Hoggan’s flagship propaganda outlet, releaser of the Gleick stolen files, Desmogblog.com – is D.O.A.

…or maybe they just gave up, according to Alexa, they had their last measurable traffic blip almost 6 months ago (lower number is better):

The Pakistani’s like them though:

h/t to WUWT reader Henry

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Editor
September 21, 2012 10:06 pm

Having been in their position, I could feel sympathetic. Nah…:

Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.com
Contact: support@namecheap.com
Visit: http://namecheap.com
Domain name: desmogblog.com
Administrative Contact:
Namecheap.com
Namecheap.com Namecheap.com (support@namecheap.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.5555555555
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US

Status: Locked
Name Servers:
dns101.registrar-servers.com
dns102.registrar-servers.com
Creation date: 21 Sep 2005 18:51:02
Expiration date: 21 Sep 2012 18:51:02

Yep. looks like they forgot to renew. Perhaps Namecheap.com doesn’t send reminders. It’s a fail!

temp
September 21, 2012 10:09 pm

lol someone should run the plastic and buy the domain and then link it to climate depot. The raging would be epic…

Justthinkin
September 21, 2012 10:29 pm

They didn’t pay their carbon tax???

David Ball
September 21, 2012 10:29 pm

temp says:
September 21, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Fiendishly clever. I like it.

George A
September 21, 2012 10:32 pm

Don’t anyone tell them!

papiertigre
September 21, 2012 10:32 pm

Due to technical difficulties beyond control, our regularly scheduled vitriolic spite and character assassination will not be seen tonight. Please tune to these related searches for alternative programming.
Thank you,
The management.

September 21, 2012 10:34 pm

I have $20 to buy the domain…are your with me.
Of course, it is not obvious that even the webmaster would notice it was gone.

Lew Skannen
September 21, 2012 10:39 pm

Perhaps Gleick sent them a checque of the same quality as the Heartland documents.

Bob
September 21, 2012 10:46 pm

Yeah. Crap happens on the world wide web. It happens all the time that those who don’t remember, or didn’t pay attention to the renewal notice, get properly deprived of service.
It doesn’t cost a lot of money to keep a web site going. It does take a lot of effort to keep a good one going, and gaining in readership like WUWT. You have to have a marketable product.
DeSmog, from my perspective as a web developer, did not have a decent product. Maybe they ran out of the lunch money it takes to keep a site on the air. Maybe they have done the world a favor and committed www suicide.

Alex Heyworth
September 21, 2012 10:50 pm

Probably wound up the company behind it to avoid any possible liability from a Heartland lawsuit.

NikFromNYC
September 21, 2012 10:57 pm

“I spend too much money on art, fine wine, skis, and high-end bicycle parts, and I am in recovery from my habit of buying luxury cars.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“Someone who is highly trained in rhetoric can argue any question from any angle.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“In his 1928 book The Business of Propaganda, Bernays put into words something that every demagogue in history probably knew instinctively. He wrote, “If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain
limits.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels praised another of Bernay’s books, ‘Crystallizing Public Opinion,’ as having been helpful in crafting the
campaign against German Jews.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“I have never liked the term “spin doctor,” and I hate the definition – at least I hate that someone would propose “PR person” as a reasonable
synonym.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“Spin is to public relations what manipulation is to interpersonal communications.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“Lies are darned handy when the truth is something you dare not admit.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“”In court (and before you conclude that I am lawyer-bashing, I learned all this in law school myself, there is a convention that every accused person deserves the best possible defense, and it is the lawyer’s duty to mount that defense to the best of his or her ability. We have even grown to accept the idea that it’s acceptable to construct a case that is entirely – almost deceptively – one-sided, knowing that the lawyer on the other side will bring equal vigor to the case.)” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“Denying it was wrong. Delaying action is dangerous. People who say otherwise should, at some point in the very near future, have to stand accountable for their recklessness.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”,
2009)
“You should be hypervigilant.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“Join the neighborhood watch of those who people who no longer stand for disinformation to be passed around your social circle.” – Jim Hoggan
(“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“That’s what we need: vigilance. Eyes on the street.” – Jim Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)

Frederick Michael
September 21, 2012 11:13 pm

David Ball says:
September 21, 2012 at 10:29 pm
temp says:
September 21, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Fiendishly clever. I like it.

Actually, if you want to have some serious fun. Buy the domain and continue it in the same spirit as it was. Then, after a while, start to let some facts creep in, while still maintaining that signature, “deniers are idiots” tone. You can see where I’m going. A true believers blog could be a lot more fun.
Don’t ever pull a Muller and “convert.” You could even make really lame arguments “refuting” the “denier” points.
Come to think of it, doesn’t …

Richard111
September 21, 2012 11:29 pm

Can’t depend on big oil then. /sarc

mrmethane
September 21, 2012 11:33 pm

I wonder if John Lefevre, who otherwise is very generous to the little island community he seems to call home, was embarrassed by desmog’s out-and-out sliminess. If I recall correctly, he provided some seed funding for desmog.

Ben D.
September 21, 2012 11:45 pm

http://desmogblog.com/ s working for me?..

DaveA
September 22, 2012 12:14 am

Ben that might be a cached version, mine looks like the screenshot above.

LevelGaze
September 22, 2012 12:17 am

Well, doesn’t work for me at 17.10 Australian Eastern Standard Time.
(Sigh of relief.)

temp
September 22, 2012 12:26 am

I tried a couple times to have the namecheap.com search for it but it always locks. Probably is giving them like 2 weeks before name goes on market.

banjo
September 22, 2012 12:44 am

Not for me, whats on the page?

Thon Brocket
September 22, 2012 12:49 am

DeGoneblog.

X Anomaly
September 22, 2012 1:09 am

DGH
September 22, 2012 1:11 am

Server is still running.
http://23.21.253.212/
And the hosts are still posting. Apparently they had no idea that this was coming.

September 22, 2012 1:12 am

The smell of napalm in the morning.
Pointman

September 22, 2012 1:18 am

People were staying away in droves…
Laugh? I never started…
There wasn’t a dry seat in the house!
Boom Boom!

dennisambler
September 22, 2012 1:28 am

http://desmogblog.com/ s working for me?..
Not for me….

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