Internet.org ... seems to be missing?

#1

Post by louyang » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 9:38 AM UTC

Internet.org ... seems to be missing?
internet.org

Re: Internet.org ... seems to be missing?

#2

Post by jongibbins » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 10:01 AM UTC

Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.

Re: Internet.org ... seems to be missing?

#3

Post by kalleboo » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 10:40 AM UTC

jongibbins wrote: post #2

Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.

  11:39] ~$ host internet.org
  internet.org has address 173.252.110.27

  11:39] ~$ host 173.252.110.27
  27.110.252.173.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer edge-star-shv-13-frc1.facebook.com.

Re: Internet.org ... seems to be missing?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 10:40 AM UTC

jongibbins wrote: post #2

Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.

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Post by egil » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 10:43 AM UTC

jongibbins wrote: post #2

Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.

I guess that for many people, Facebook _is_ the internet.

Re: Internet.org ... seems to be missing?

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Post by suhair » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 10:43 AM UTC

jongibbins wrote: post #2

Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.

facebook is behind internet.org[1]

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/facebook-internet-org/

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Post by talles » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 10:56 AM UTC

jongibbins wrote: post #2

Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.

I thought it was some stupidity done by my work's proxy.

What's with that again?

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Post by gprasanth » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 10:58 AM UTC

jongibbins wrote: post #2

Can't help but notice the favicon being a Facebook icon.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Re: Internet.org ... seems to be missing?

#9

Post by cm-t » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 11:20 AM UTC

Not only the favicon but http://www.whois.net/whois/internet.org says:

>Registrant Organization:Facebook, Inc.

Re: Internet.org ... seems to be missing?

#10

Post by annnnd » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 11:36 AM UTC

cm-t wrote: post #9

Not only the favicon but http://www.whois.net/whois/internet.org says: >Registrant Organization:Facebook, Inc.

Does anyone know since when? Last change to whois was in August, is that it? I wonder how much they bought it for...

EDIT: found this link: https://www.facebook.com/facebook/posts/10152101244851729