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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http://23.21.253.212/ works for me but http://desmogblog.com/ (if you Google it) goes to Namecheap and http://23.21.243.212/ does nothing but time out.
“He’s dead, Jim!”
For Gawd’s sake, wherever they are – if they are – don’t give ’em the numbers. Don’t give them your hits. It’s bad form to get a decrepit old thing excited. It’s bad for an old heart, it might… oh.
I haven’t received my big oil check this month or i would buy the site and share it with all of you.
Funny, basically ‘forgot to pay the rent’ event..
What’s even more funny is that their SEO positioning will/is tanking – after this is won’t be worth starting up again. Now is a good time to set up blogs with names around desmogblog and take up the empty space..
Well reality has caught up, for whatever reason it appeared to be still working for me yesterday, http://desmogblog.com/ ain’t working for me now!.
Seems to be working again – new article up on 22nd. I think this article has caused another blip on the traffic graph
defunctblog.com
They need a Public Relations company and support of a large Environmental organization to help them spin their way out of the lost prestige and regain the moral high ground from which they can pontificate once again.
It looks like it’s a bad redirect setup for the supposedly uber smart Warmists at desmogblog. If you try it with http://www., it works fine. But straight “desmogblog.com” or even http://desmogblog.com goes to the domain registration page.
It’s funny when I tried it with http://theworstnuttersalarmistblogever unfortunately desmogblog worked fine.
In fact with all you lot checking to see if it is definitely gone they have gone from one hit a day to 100 000 hits!
Maybe they only let them out of the asylum at certain times?
Chris Mooney is probably still in mourning for his great leader.
Maybe the traffic link to Pakistan is more sinister than we realise?
On Friday they seemed to swap host
And DNS takes time to spread
So that as of this post
They’ve retrieved their own ghost
And (at least for the moment) aren’t dead.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
The Canadian Revenue Agency is just now starting to investigate crooked enviromental organizations that claim charitable status. Since this is suzuki’s PR firm, wanna bet that had something to do with it?
http://desmogblog.com/comment/728429#comment-728429
Sat, 2012-09-22 23:36 — Brendan DeMelle
Sorry for the outage. It was a mixup with the registrar of our primary domain, and it took some time to sort out due to the weekend. All is fixed now. Thanks for your patience everyone!
LOL, I forgot the earlier response:
Sat, 2012-09-22 19:19 — rpauli
Many suspected a hack attack. …
Noting how many people here are checking out their site, I have to suspect they allowed this to happen, as our response is now giving them the biggest hit since they ever existed!
Otter says:
September 23, 2012 at 1:49 am
Let us know when Dr. Lew sends you a survey to take.
Otter, thoughts exactly, has it worked though?
These listing agencies are notoriously unreliable for low-ranking sites.
The German site http://www.refertus.info also does tracking.
Global rankings are currently
wattsupwiththat 19072
desmogblog 953654
manicbeancounter 960117
My hits in the past 30 days 1694
That means a couple of hundred hits and I overtake a well-funded website!
All I did recently was help take apart the Lewandowsky paper.
http://manicbeancounter.com/
As of today, Desmogblog.com seems to have found a credit card that works. The site is back up.
Ironic that Desmog is bankrolled by the NETeller millionaire John Lefebvre.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/oncampus/weekly/oct14-05/lefebvre-profile.html
Lefebvre pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to charges of conspiracy in his online gambling payment scheme.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/07/11/oukin-uk-neteller-founder-plea-idUKN1036368620070711
If anyone knows the ins and ourt of online payment methods, it would be him.
DGH says: September 22, 2012 at 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.”
That’s wild.
One thing I do is set my browser’s “ home page” setting to my web site, so every time I open a browser while on the Internet I see if my site is working.
(Browser default is typically a search engine associated with the browser maker.)
Problems can occur with DNS name servers, besides of course the hosting operation.
As for the Desmog page showing up outside of the US, it may have been cached locally to speed response to users, and the cache automatic update can’t update due domain status.
And moving a web site to a different hosting service can be an effort if the site owner did not think through control of the site. Most people will want to have the technical contact as the hosting service but control of the registration and hosting in their hands – not all registrar host combinations are that straight up. My host sends me a reminder every year that I should check on my domain name registration information.
And there are scammer scum around, one in Canada sends renewal notices written to sound official to the naiive but with a link to re-register through them.
As for the keywords in a meta tag, a common scam used to be to pack the tag with hook words that had nothing to do with the site. Search engines caught onto that and started ignoring that tag.