This highlights to me something about long-term management of my domains. "blog.reidreport.com" is now run by some domain squatter - and knowing nothing about Reid or reid report I took a vaguely generic website at face value - and clicked on the heavily disguised paid adverts.
Clearly her domain is defunct - but I got suckered and actually came here to say things like "what terrible journalistic standards" before double checking.
As my old domains fall into disrepair I guess I will need to archive them to S3 and keep up the payments just to stop this happening.
An interesting problem - and possibly a revenue source for archive.org?
EDIT:
Hang on - the article on archive says (someone) added a robots.txt to block them. But the blog.reidreport.com is parked on some crappy redirect thing.
Whois says that joyannreird@gmail.com still owns the domain - so I think she has got some very very bad advice from her hosting company. And my point still stands - a domain name is a reputation, and it is for life, not just for christmas.
Are you sure you're spelling the URL correctly? `blog.reidreport.com` (as you spelled it in your post) redirects to a Blogger.com "Permission denied" page. Not a squatter.
I think I'd be concerned about your client redirecting you to a squatter page.
Clearly her domain is defunct - but I got suckered and actually came here to say things like "what terrible journalistic standards" before double checking.
As my old domains fall into disrepair I guess I will need to archive them to S3 and keep up the payments just to stop this happening.
An interesting problem - and possibly a revenue source for archive.org?
EDIT: Hang on - the article on archive says (someone) added a robots.txt to block them. But the blog.reidreport.com is parked on some crappy redirect thing.
Whois says that joyannreird@gmail.com still owns the domain - so I think she has got some very very bad advice from her hosting company. And my point still stands - a domain name is a reputation, and it is for life, not just for christmas.