Someone bought the old kmeleon.org domain and put an old version of the site on it. I wonder what the purpose is, except making kmeleon looks like a dead project...

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Dorian
Someone bought the old kmeleon.org domain and put an old version of the site on it. I wonder what the purpose is, except making kmeleon looks like a dead project...

Dorian,

Norton Safe Web's automated checker found no problems with this site, so what gives here?????

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Mozilla is behind it, no doubt about it.

Grrr... It's registered anonymously. Another suspect perhaps Mr Hardy...?L

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siria
Grrr... It's registered anonymously. Another suspect perhaps Mr Hardy...?L

No. He would never leave name Kmeleon. He would change it to Spirit in the Sky or sth like that.

WHOIS Lookup tells that the Name Servers are from HOSTGATOR.COM, does that means that the fake site is hosted there? :s

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Dorian
Someone bought the old kmeleon.org domain and put an old version of the site on it.

I wonder what the purpose is, except making kmeleon looks like a dead project...

Yes, It makes it look old, outdated and abuses K-Meleon's logo and layout.
This is no very funny. No idea what the person intends.

However You only find it when You directly, manually use the Unix project name plus .org.

kmeleon.org: Created On:24-Oct-2005 19:07:39 UTC ... That is registered to "a Private / anonymous person" in Scottsdale, Arizona, US.

Most people would manually use K-Meleon's true project name plus .org.
BTW. I always thought this was the old domain?

k-meleon.org: Created On:12-Jan-2006 13:26:39 UTC ... That is currently registered to Julien Clairet in Paris, France.

And this has vallide links to K-Meleon pages that is also known to Google...

Whatever the search engines invariably point to kmeleon.sourceforge.net.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/2010 12:52AM by guenter.

Just another link, the history of the site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/kmeleon.org

Not knowing anything about the history of it, I would guess the purpose is to sell it back to the developers or intercept traffic to be paid for displaying ads.

Or... they meant to make it a mirror site long ago and forgot about it, perhaps they were interested in taking over development long ago.

If you want, I will call the number and ask them.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/2010 05:36AM by snuz2.

they updated it now..looks like fslut fanboys

This is what you get when your browser must compete with ff on a selection screen. Next they will ask for money to sell it back to kmeleon. That's how internet commerce works

I am glad that at least Chrome is scr*wing FF big time at the moment.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/23/2010 08:33AM by panzer.

Grrr....

But am not 100% sure of the firefox thing, perhaps that's just as fake as the KM addy? There are too many suspicious links sounding like shops, and a link to a software download page - what if they're framing people by "selling" free software there? And using the firefox promotion only to delude people into trusting them?

The "about" page says:
"You can find articles about online retailers, protecting your safety, and choosing an internet provider."
Will not check if those are paid services, but they are definitely faking and not honest!