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webalizer link

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:33 pm
by racerlupine
I noticed that when one clicks the webalizer link on the bottom of the usage stats page it opens https://nc2alawyers.org. What's up with that? Has someone hijacked the webalizer.org domain?

RACER

ps= Same goes for webalizer.com.

Re: webalizer link

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:57 pm
by racerlupine
Am I the only person who thinks this is kinda odd?

RACER

Re: webalizer link

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:11 am
by joemuller
racerlupine wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:33 pm I noticed that when one clicks the webalizer link on the bottom of the usage stats page it opens https://nc2alawyers.org. What's up with that? Has someone hijacked the webalizer.org domain?

RACER

ps= Same goes for webalizer.com.
Per the Wikipedia page [1], the last update to the Webalyzer software was over 10 years ago. It appears that both the software and website are abandoned. The domain itself seems to have been snapped up by an SEO spam outfit that is making it redirect to other domains -- this seems to have happened around 2021. [2]

We might be able to change out the template to point to either the Wikipedia page or what appears to be a github repo of the project. [3]

-- Joe M
Sonic System Operations

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webalizer
[2] https://dnshistory.org/historical-dns-r ... alyzer.com
[3] https://github.com/hyc/webalizer

Re: webalizer link

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:59 pm
by racerlupine
Thanks for the reply. How weird! Domains cost money, even if not much sometimes, but still. If I were Sonic I might be concerned about being associated with these folks, not because of their politics specifically but just because I view the services as apolitical. I wouldn't want to link to ANY source other than Sonic itself with any political ax to grind.

RACER