Comments on: Desmogblog sinks into murk

By: David

David — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:49:05 +0000

Popular? The evidence on Alexa suggests otherwise. But you dont worry about evidence eh Rob

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:50 +0000

In a way, that’s flattering for DeSmogBlog – it must be a popular site to warrant being taken over by hackers for for click farming…

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:37:05 +0000

These link only sites are also known as MFA – made for adwords.
The hackers will be generating quite a bit of revenue from people clicking on the sponsored links

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:29:51 +0000

The keywords in the page source are interesting

All about cash advance and credit refinance

Definitely a hack, I’d say

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:22:04 +0000

Thanks Rob, I checked their Facebook page and it leads to a list of “related searches”
http://www.desmogblog.com/

Each of those links leads to a bunch of paid Google ads

No sign of the old site

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:56:08 +0000

Desmogblog are active on Facebook, maybe that is their new home?

http://www.facebook.com/DeSmogBlog

I also recommend their excellent book, “Climate Cover-up”.

http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Cover-Up-Crusade-Global-Warming/dp/1553654854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348437306&sr=1-1

By: Stanley

Stanley — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:30:00 +0000

It’s gone now. Just a note saying the domain WAS registered at ‘namecheap.com”.

LeFebvre sounds like he would have become a carbon trader in this enlightened age. Might have gone down the tubes.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:48:31 +0000

John Lefebvre is the chief benefactor of DeSmogBlog, and has an interesting history other than being some kind of musician

Lefevre first garnered public attention in 1999, when he co-founded NETeller (now known as Neovia), an online money transfer facility. Though a publicly traded UK company, the firm's involvement in transactions serving the then-fledgling online gambling sector led to U.S. charges of possible money laundering against the company and his arrest in January 2007.[4] Lefebvre plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to conduct illegal Internet gambling transactions and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify if necessary

By: Richard Treadgold

Richard Treadgold — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:12:57 +0000

Oh, yes, well, I do hope so :-&

By: Bob D

Bob D — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:53:29 +0000

The DNS servers take time to update apparently, perhaps we’ll see it up again soon too.