Rask
Shared on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 12:41So since the Warner announcement that they were going Blu, I decided to start reading up on some HD-DVD and Blu-Ray forums(namely the General discussion board on forum.blu-ray.com and forum.hd-dvd.com).
One thing that really surprised me was how similar everything on those boards were. So I decided to do some digging... As it turns out, both boards and sites are run by the same people.
After I was done I posted the following on Blu-Ray.com...
Title: HD-DVD.COM and Blu-Ray.com run by the same people....
A few quick web searches and there you go. If you look at the whois info about both domains, the only thing they share in common is that they have been registered with the same anonymity service.
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=hd-dvd.com
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=blu-ray.com
Both domains registered by the same anonymous source and 12 days apart in 2002 is circumstancial at best however if you need at the DNS records for both company, you come up with something interesting..
The 2 are setup almost exactly in the same manner but that isn't really proof of anything. If you examine the DNS info below however, notice that both domains use the same e-mail server at the same IP address. An IP address on the same address block by all machines that run HD-DVD.com.
> blu-ray.com
Server: [69.28.242.195]
Address: 69.28.242.195:53
blu-ray.com MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = mochine.com
blu-ray.com internet address = 69.90.124.146
blu-ray.com nameserver = ns1.blu-ray.com
blu-ray.com nameserver = ns2.blu-ray.com
mochine.com internet address = 69.28.242.194
ns1.blu-ray.com internet address = 69.90.124.144
ns2.blu-ray.com internet address = 69.90.124.145
> hd-dvd.com
Server: [69.28.242.195]
Address: 69.28.242.195
hd-dvd.com MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = mochine.com
hd-dvd.com nameserver = ns1.hd-dvd.com
hd-dvd.com nameserver = ns2.hd-dvd.com
hd-dvd.com internet address = 69.28.242.201
mochine.com internet address = 69.28.242.194
ns1.hd-dvd.com internet address = 69.28.242.195
ns2.hd-dvd.com internet address = 69.28.242.196
After about 5-10 minutes, this post got deleted.
I had copied and pasted the content to a text file and decided that I was going to post it again from work when I got there(I was running late-ish at this point).
So I get to work and I post it under the same username and password and they banned me for a week. (After that I realised I had a previous account there, posted again and got a lifetime ban on both accounts =P No real worries though, the thought process of the folks there is about on par with SonyDefenceforce.com anyways.)
Here's a few of the examples of threads that were there..
- MS/Toshiba bashing
- Bashing of HD Movie downloads
- Bashing of any HD format that wasn't Blu-Ray
- Bashing of anything not 1080p/7.1 Lossless
- Massive praising of the PS3
- Massive bashing of the 360
- Bashing/Boycott talk of Paramount/Universal (the HD-DVD holdouts)
What really bugs me is who is running these concurrent sites and why. Is it a third party market research firm? Studios trying to find out people's views? Marketing moles trying to train people into becoming word of mouth advertisers?
Anyhow, the odds of me returning to that site are slim to none anyhow, I just thought the whole ordeal was rather humorous and I thought I'd share.
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