Back from the dead: http://www.luxembourg-isoc.org/
15 June 2008 | Published in Internet, Luxembourg
Cybersquatting often is a real issue for the one whose domain name has been stolen. Sometimes, though, it can generate a good laugh.
Take a look at this site: http://www.luxembourg-isoc.org/
This was the first domain name used by the Luxembourg chapter of ISOC. We abandoned it some time around 2002 or 2003, to use “isoc.lu” instead. We stopped paying for the domain name. I verified at the time that the domain name had indeed disappeared from the whois and was removed form the indexes of search engines.
Hence, I was surprised to find while Googling that the domain name was:
- still existing
- still registered to ISOC Luxembourg
- even hosted a web page which is a copy of the original main page of the original site, circa November 2000.
This is funny and problematic at the same time. Funny because, at least for me, this old web page brang back memories of a very exciting period. Problematic because this is rewriting history in a sense.This page is eight years old, yet the unsuspecting web surfer would think this is the latest one to date.
This also proves that one cannot trust the whois to return accurate data. I swear I have not renewed this domain name for at least four years. Still the data returned by whois is the one I submitted in 2001 !. The only difference is that I have never worked with EstDomains.
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