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comment by byonic
byonic  ·  2996 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 14, 2016

Looks like a free (& anonymous) domain that someone registered and pointed at hubski's server.

Both resolve to the same IP (162.243.169.82) so I don't think there's anything especially nefarious going on.

If I had to guess it's probably some form of SEO / marketing strategy / abuse - that's what's usually going on with fishy web things like this. Whoever's in charge of the domain is probably trying to build reputation using good content & traffic from Hubski. Eventually, they might try and swap their pointer from Hubski's server to one they own, using the reputation they built to climb search engine ranks and get more traffic.

Total shot in the dark, I'm never exactly sure what these people are up to.

Or maybe it's just someone screwing with us.