I called them, and they had no clue that it exited. I also called their umbrella organization, Resource Horizons Group, and they to had no clue.
But overall they were simply confused as to why I cared to tell them.
Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
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Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#12My first thought was, it was some kind of joke, trying to take a more original / off-kilter approach to the whole blackout thing.
I mean, "Black Oak" on SOPAs "Black Out" day?
But maybe I'm just giving them too much credit...
Also: Pretty messed up (on TCrunches part) that this Black Oak site would now have access to cookies/LS from techcrunch, as one person points out.
Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#13I took a look at the about page (http://technews.techcrunch.com/about-us/) and figured it must be satire. Then I read the comments here and it seems like these guys are real. But I still think Arrington and McWorther have a striking similarity.
Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#14I called them, and they had no clue that it exited. I also called their umbrella organization, Resource Horizons Group, and they to had no clue. But overall they were simply confused as to why I cared to tell them.
"were simply confused as to why I cared to tell them"
So true. They can't even appreciate what is going on here and probably thought you were trying to sell them something.
The truth is that SEO wise the techcrunch site comes up when "blackoak asset management" is the search string. Not blackoakam.com (see contact page).
But someone should sell them some help with getting this straightened out so they don't disappear once TC fixes the DNS.
Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#15I had a problems with a hosting provider in the past that lead to something similar happening with one of my websites.
Basically rather than explicitly binding each IP address for their servers to the server's MAC address itself they just allowed IP addresses to be assigned on the servers themselves essentially creating IP address conflicts if the same number was assigned by the administrators of 2 servers on the same LAN.
This first manifested itself when I accidentally assigned the wrong IP address to one of my servers and received angry emails telling me that I had taken someone elses site offline. Obviously I was embarrassed by this , apologized and corrected the address and didn't think much else of it.
Months later , after I had a server go down and rebooted it I found that my website was now pointing to some scam site.
Turns out that someone had got a server on the same LAN (rented or hacked I don't know) and assigned it every possible IP address just waiting for another server to go down so that they could steal the address.
Possibly what happened here?
Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#16I had a problems with a hosting provider in the past that lead to something similar happening with one of my websites. Basically rather than explicitly binding each IP address for their servers to the server's MAC address itself they just allowed IP addresses to be assigned on the servers themselves essentially creating IP address conflicts if the same number was assigned by the administrators of 2 servers on the sam…
I had a similar problem when doing support hosting. Static routing wasn't set up on cluster of servers and two ones with almost identical software configurations were colliding. It was particularly nasty because once you had logged in to both, you couldn't really identify which machine you were hitting.
The solution ended up being to drive to the DC, plug a monitor into the machine, and see Windows' "IP Address Conflict" dialog box on the screen >_<.
Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#17...and after the AOL acquisition, nothing of value was lost.
Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#18I had a problems with a hosting provider in the past that lead to something similar happening with one of my websites. Basically rather than explicitly binding each IP address for their servers to the server's MAC address itself they just allowed IP addresses to be assigned on the servers themselves essentially creating IP address conflicts if the same number was assigned by the administrators of 2 servers on the sam…
I had a similar problem when doing support hosting. Static routing wasn't set up on cluster of servers and two ones with almost identical software configurations were colliding. It was particularly nasty because once you had logged in to both, you couldn't really identify which machine you were hitting. The solution ended up being to drive to the DC, plug a monitor into the machine, and see Windows' "IP Address Confl…
That's pretty nasty, hence why I always set different wallpapers & motd files on each server I run! :)
Re: Did Techcrunch get Hacked?
#19Did Techcrunch get hacked? Lets hope so.