Spacefarmer Dead Yet Again?

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

No my friends, he has been kidnapped by internet spammers.
Some of you may have noticed that the TUB went "off the air" in a "Midol Moment" courtesy of Spacefarmer. Well look at the TUB now. What the Hell, Spacefarmer selling car insurance? No my friends let me tell you what happened. It is called a internet spammer. They look for semi- popular blogs and websites, and when the person who owns them deletes the name or does not reregister the domain, these spammers scoop them up. With Blogger, this spammer just reactivated the name, and forwarded it to his crap. Why would they do this? Well any link to the TUB now goes there (traffic from those links, and adds to relevancy in search engines). In addition, the TUB becuase of it free for all nature, probably got a lot of weird search hits, which now will go to Mr. Spammer which by the way got all this publicity for free. In edition it will take most search engines a year to realize the TUB is dead, so now future search hits will go to Mr. Spammer. Interestingly, Spacefarmer still has his blogger account but is set to private; he is your private dancer, your dancer for money.

Sad part is, there in nothing Spacefarmer can do to get the TUB back, unless this spammers drops his claim on the name. In addion, let me get you in on a little secret. This site has been innuedated with referral links from Spam sites in the past 2 - 3 weeks. What is going on? Spies. This blog has become so popular, and has so many contributers, they are waiting for someone to do like Spacefarmer did, and then scoop up their blog or site.

The perils of Internet war.

I am Malach, your war correspondent.