Friday, November 19, 2004

Zombie domains: expired but with an evil afterlife

Here's an example. I was checking a list of links or bookmarked sites or something like that. Upon hitting Slackananda (don't try this at home, kids), I found that it had expired and then been acquired by an evil being and put to new use. This happens all too often. Here are some of the links "affiliated" with the new Slackananda: freeipods.com, lowermybills.com, ebirdseed.com, and whatever lurks under clickable links that say "sand," "anise," "slacks," "land," "band," "tack," "black," and the like, all of which are anagrams or near anagrams of slackananda or part of slackananda. Endless popups usually accompany these sites, which also leave work for Ad-Aware. As I recall, Slackananda was in some peripheral and Austin way related to the Church of the Subgenius in Dallas, or to Bob Dobbs or something like that. Slackananda must have borne some relationship to the hour of Slack. It's kind of cute that the Subgenius on-line store has aprons, though.

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